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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
17th April, 1947.
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sir,
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I have the honour to refer to your secret despatch
No. of January 28th on the subject of the activities of
the Kuomintang in Hong Kong.
I have been giving careful consideration to Mr.
Megarry's suggestion, made in paragraph eighteen of the
Memorandum accompanying my confidential despatch of
November 28th, 1946, that representations should be made
through the appropriate channels to prevail upon the Govertr
ment of China to post to the headship of the Kuomintang
branch in Hong Kong a person who would work in a proper
relation of subordination to the diplomatic representative
of that Government.
3.
I was informed by Sir T. Lloyd's top secret
personal telegram o me of December 17th last that it was
not the intention or His Majesty's Government to raise with
the Chinese Government at that time the question of the
status of their diplomatic representative in this Colony.
You will recall the view expressed in my confidential
despatch of July 29th last that Mr. T. w. Kwok is hardly
a satisfactory representative either in ability or in
tact and that his ill-defined status presents in addition
opportunities which the local Kuomintang organisation is
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
RECEIVED 25 APR 1947
ARTHUR CREECH JONES, F.C., M.P.
C. O. REGY
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