CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4] — Page 327

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I have the honour to transmit an extract

from the "Hongkong Daily Press" newspaper of the 11th,

of April and to inform you that a perusal of the letter

published in "Truth" newspaper of the 6th, of March and

signed by 'another old China Hand" has led me to the

conclusion that Commander Basil Taylor, Harbour Master

of this Colony, who is at present on leave in the United

Kingdom, must either have written it himself or inspired

it.

2.

It seems clear that the writer refers

in the third paragraph to the removal of certain

Portuguese clerks from the Harbour Office, more especially

to the case of Mr Guterres; and in support of this view

I would refer you in particular to paragraphs 5 & 9 of

Commander 'Taylor's letter of the 1st of June forwarded

under cover of your Confidential despatch of the 11th.of

July, 1911, and to paragraphs 5 to 15 of ir Clementi's

Memorandum transmitted in Sir F.Lugard's Confidential

despatch of the 25th of August. I may also state that

Commander Taylor's animus against the Cadet service is

well known locally: as is also the interest which he

took in the scheme for the registration of Chinese

servants. Commander Taylor's hostility to Sir H.May is

apparent in

HARCOURT.

The,

RIGHT HONOURABLE,

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