CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 614

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I obe ve that in the final verton of General Henderson'a resolution adopted by your Committee the suggestion is conveyed that the decision to abandon the Hongkong Extension achene was influenced by the statement antisipating Hongkong'☐ viare made by me after and in consequ moe

of General Henderson'w expressed desire that it should be abandoned. I also observe that it was decided that he should write to the Governor of the Colony giving the Committee's reasons for abandoning - it.

I am glad to know that the President of the Hospital will thus have an opportunity of stating his views, len: in anything I have written I may unwit- tingly have done the less than justice. At the same time I feel sorry that negotiations so pleasantly begun should have been broken off in circumstances so unfortunate. It is perhaps not to be wondered at that we should have failed to be able to read eye to eye an agreement arrived at under difficult conditions and, in the circumstances,

that a resolution recording an anicable agreement to disagree would have not the case and proved a better prelude to the acceptance of a compromise than the one which has been adopted by you

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As far as I am concerned, however, the whole matter seans now to be at an end and I have only

to add en assurance of my appreciation of he kindness and courtesy extended to me personally

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