CO129-236 - Others - 1887 — Page 299

too

in face of my of Me

I show

8

letter

2nd June, in which

my

readiness to

confine myself to the

Specific char

I made

Bowen

et Sir George.

against

as Governor of Hong Kong.

while I was

Military

Ce

There

I must say.

I am unable

to reconcili

your observation

upon me serious charges

formally

made upon.

"

the

with your

responsibility of "an offices of my standing statement that " you

in

any degree.

grave respon.

Cannol

share

J

bility

the

which

271C.

i

would rest upon

should publish my

the 17. May.

letter

MOUNT MASCA.,

BEXLEY,

KENT.

9

283

his disgraceport conduct,

particularly

him the desertion

port as

the preten prever

foreign

Governo

under

to

71 Arm

rig..

of

ex

of illness, in

mity and of

ace

stopped

of the large

Conne

the garrison when

leave

of

absence

in conse

war will

4

sequence of the expected

I

errrr

regard

the public

ad Sir George Bowen

light

in the same

I do

When it hears both sides. And the blame of making the scandal public.

witt

certainly not rest upon me.

I

In that

explained to you.

of

letter

that I when

had

at the time.

all the circumstances

were fresh in my mind..., written to Sir George Bowen. and emphasised with scorn and contempt

can prove before

tribunal that I

of the last to neake

any

21

scandal and that I never

was

in one

one unitil Sir George Bowen persisted in threisting his disgraceful proceedings upon

on my

allow for