CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 199

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Copy enclosure to De acon,Looker, De sou

& Harston, Letter of 20th August 1918.

sir,

Hongkong.

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August, 191 ☎,

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The Southern District of the few Kerri tories,

With reference to the letter signed "Wireless", which I

recently addressed to you and you published in your columns,

I much regret to find that the gentleman who until recently

held the post of Acting District officer (South) should have

considered the letter as a personal attack on himsel f', No

such attack was intended or in fact made, the letter being

the merely comment on a matter of public interest, namely,

administration of the Southern District of the New Terri tories

during the last twenty years by many District officers and

others.

My sole object in writing the letter was to draw public

attention to the apparently apathetic attitude of the Govern-

ment towards the Southern District in the hope that such

attitude would be modified,

If any further imputations against the gentleman

men tioned were contained in the letter (and I maintain there

were none) such imputations were entirely unintentional and

I with draw them unreservedly.

Yours faithfully,

To the Editor of

8d/-

F.B.L.Bowley,