CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11] — Page 399

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Government House,

Hongkong,

10th November, 1914.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

Your Excellency's letter of the 6th instant concerning the issue

of passes to four Hissionaries to enable them to return to the

Kwangtung Province.

I regret that in this matter I have felt constrain

-ed to act in opposition to the views of both yourself and the

Commodore, but I would remind Your Excellency that, as explained

in conversation on this question, in my view little danger is

to be anticipated from the presence of these Missionaries at

their Mission Stations in view of the fact that the German

Government has a Consular Officer and his staff at Canton who

has all the resources and the knowledge for successful spying on

this Colony and who alone of the German Community in and around

Canton is allowed by the Chinese Authorities to send telegrams

in code or cypher over Chinese wires.

As far as anti-British propaganda by missionaries

is concerned I am convinced that German Missionaries in the

interior of China will in the interests of their own safety

refrain from such dangerous agitation which, if successful, might

engulph all foreigners in attacks in which the Chinese have never

shown any discrimination in favour of my one European race.

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His Excellency

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Major-General F. H. Kelly, C.B.,

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Commanding the Troops in South China,

Hongkong.

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