CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 102

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Downing Street,

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20th January,1921.

y dear,alkin,

With reference to my letter to you of the 5th

of January and your reply of the 11th, I have now seen

the Feking despatch of 22nd of September with enclosures

which the Foreign Office sent over on the 15th.

As you say in your letter of the 11th we need

not worry about this despatch and can now consider the

Eeneral question on its merits.

I may remind you once more that in the Foreign

Office letter of the 25th of "eptember they asked us to

defer taking any action as to amending the Hong Kong

Ordinance pending the receipt by the Foreign office of

this Peking despatch, which we not unnaturally assumed

had some bearing on the general question.

If as Boon

as the Foreign Office received it and knew that it had

no such bearing they had sent us a copy the question

of amending the Hong Kong Ordinance could have been

H.W.Malkin, Esq. C.M.C.

proceeded