CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 227

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foundation in fact and did not emanate from the Capital. I

have it however on the most reliable authority that the

President approved of the idea of my appointment, for which

there were very substantial reasons, but the time for maxi ng

it had not yet arrived. So far therefore, the answer which

was given to Sir J. Jordan's question accords with what had

actually occurred; but none the less the rumour was based

on a sub-stratum of fact. Both Dr Wu Ting Fang and Mr. Tang

Shao Yi, when I saw them in July, thought that the appoint-

ment had in fact been made. But what occurred in the early

part of the year has no bearing on what has subsequently

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It is a complete mistake to imagine that I have ever,

since I have been in Peking, solicited or "continued to

solicit", as alleged in the despatch under reply, Sir J.

Jordan's official support of my so called candidature. In the first place, from the information I had received I did not think that such support was necessary: and in the second place nothing could have been further from my thoughts

than to solicit it, for I have never desired it since I

came to Peking, and I have invariably informed the chine se Ministers that in my opirion (based on previous experience) the support of any candidate for an Advisership by his Lega-

tion was most undesirable, and might, for obvious reasons, prove most prejudicial to the bests interests of the

Government

. I have therefore told them that I had no of...

ficial relations with, and was entirely independent of,

British Legation.

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It is true that when the subject was first broached in Hongkong, I wrote to Sir J. Jordan and Dr. Morrison on the subject, and received very flattering answers: the former saying that my previous services would almost entitle me to the post should it come to be created, the latter that he

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