CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4] — Page 101

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG

Cari

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He also stated that important reinforcements of Chinese

troops were being sent to the neighbourhood of Kacao

and asked me to bring the matter to your Lordships

notice which I did by my telegram of January19th.On the

21st of January the Portugese Consul General called

on me at the request of the Governor of kacao to tell

me that the latter had received definite news from the

Consul at Canton that two len of War had been sent to

Macao. I telegraphed to your Lordship on the same

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day reporting this information and suggesting that the

presence of a British Kan of War would be salutary but

that the Admiral was away and that the Commodore was

unable to act without ordera.

On the 25th of January 1 received your Lordships

telegram instructing me to send copies of my telegrame

to H.M.Minister at Peking and the Consul General at Canton

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if I had not already done so I have sent copies to them

and I am nów receiving regularily copies of the teleggrams

sent to the Foreign Office by the Kinister and by the

Consul General to the Minister,

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Admiral Duff returned to the Colony on the 24th of Jan;

and on the 26th sent H.M.S. Moorhen to the waters of

liacao to watch the situation an action which has been

very gratefully acknowledged by the Governor.