CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12] — Page 42

and we have had nothing since which adds anything to the material which ought to be taken into consideration.

We are at your disposal to discuss the matter

whenever you like.

Yours

mininely

{

y dear Malkin,

papers.

Downing Street,

5th January, 1921.

I have now got hold of the China Companies'

I find that my previous impression was correct

viz. that apart from gone Regulations by Sir .Alston Wench 7:0.sut

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Ko

on 8th October, not relevent to the general question, the

last letter we had from you was one of the 25th of

September (F 2171/117/10) in which you told us that you

would defer your request that the Governor of Hong Konɛ

should be instructed to amend the Ordinance until the

receipt of a despatch from the Chargé d'Affaires et

Peking which was then on its way.

We have been waiting ever since for you to

send us some further communication including probably a

copy of that despatch which we suppose supplies an answer

to the objections raised by sir . Stubbs in his despatch

of the 27th July to the Chargé d'Affaires.

Malkin, 78q. C.M.G.

on