CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 528

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Excellency

as kind enough to show me when I was in long-

kong, I found many statements to which I could take strong

exception.

I will refer to only one, and that the most

important.

r. law tries to justify his decision to

negotiate with the Self Cov rment Society by saying that

he did so only after the British Authorities had declared

themselves unable to render the firm any further assist-

anco. To quotes me as saying on Juns 5th. that "I had

cut to the end of my tether".

I do not remember using this expression, but, if

I did, Mr. Law must have misunderstood my meaning. I may

have said that I could do nothing more to settle the

differences between the Portuguese Conall and the Society:

I may have said that as long as the boycott was confined

to Manila and Hongkong, I could do little to help him; I

certainly did not say that I could ronder him no assistance

if the boycott spread to Chinese ports.

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