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on without my being in any way consulted, and of the exis- tence of which I was in entire ignorance, would appear to be as follows. Sir Frederick Lugard by previous appoint-

ment made on March 24 an official call on the Governor

General. I was present thereat, as well as at the luncheon,

which took place immediately afterwards in the offices of the Head Quarters' Staff. When luncheon was over, and

while I was engaged in conversation with certain of the

Chiness officials, who were in attendance, His Excellency Chang and the Governor, together with the Acting Colonial Secretary and Mr Wei Han, suddenly withdraw, not reap-

pearing until noarly an hour later. On his return Sir

Froderick Lugard professed surprise that I had not accom-

panied him, at the same time explaining that he had only

been discussing genoralities.

The first outcome of these generalities was & para-

graph about the middle of May in the Chinese press stating

that an arrangement had been come to between the Provincial

and the Colonial Governments on the subject of extraditing

criminals. As Chinese newspapers are apt to be ill

informed

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