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6.
Taotai Wei Han acted as Interpreter, and it
at once became apparent why His Excellency had desired that the interview should be between himself and myself alone (except for the interpreter), for after a very brief allusion to the subject he had spoken of at lunch, he said he would like to speak with me as man to man forgetting for the moment our official positions and to ask my advice in certain matters in which he was in difficulty. This request arose as a natural sequence to a conversation he had held with me when my guest at Government House. He had then said with great frankness that though China was attempting to inaugurate Constitutional Government, she had only theory and books to guide her, and no practical experience. He had asked me whether I could recommend him any Chinese Gentlemen in whom I had confidence, and who had lived under British Administration and could on occasion assist him with advice. In reply I had said that while I had great confidence in both the Chinese Members of Council it was probable that I myself would be better informed than they as to Administrative problems, and if I could assist him I should at any time be glad to place what experience I might have at his disposal. His pre- -sent request was for a fulfilment of that promise, and to have insisted on the presence of the Consul-General would have been to have robbed it of its private nature, and would have been
tantamount to a rebuff.
7.
He then spoke extremely frankly of China's financial difficulties and other Administrative questions wholly unconnected with Hongkong and in reply I spoke (inter alia) of possible reforms in Land Taxes and illustrated my meaning by reference to the system I had introduced in lorthern Nigeria a country not dissimilar in its conditions and area from this point of view to the Kwangtung Province, and I added that we raised a tax from the Leased Territories three times as great as that which accrued to China without the slightest friction in a
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