CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 595

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people of his own province without being anewerable to the Central Government which will have no powera bayond dealing with international questions and controlling the army for nation- al defend e.

5.

JAZIER OF PRORF-TI 3 PEDAGLIG 20, 203272 AT A

to have rendered serrigan bu kie Kranzai, Laadora:- Properties have been seised and confiscated at random. Among at

those, whose properties have been seized and confiscated, there is one British subject named Tam Lai ling. "e might have been

guilty of many wrongful acts, but there is no denyip the fact

that Tam is entitled t› British: protection, and that therefore

the dignity of the British fly must be maintained.

The case

has been taken up by His Britannic Najsst's Consul Geŋ ral and

Chan Fwing-ming has been advised by me that the sooner he relearne

Tam's prapicu

267, una battar h» vill by able to keep Graut Britain's

friendship,

TUR ARIMAL :- Large quantities of arms and WMU-

nition are being turned out every day. The consist of rifles.

machine-jans, shells, cartridges and smokeless powder.

rons can be ma:afsotured.owing to want of steel vi to certain

tbola kari.. been removed by the h<argesi men before they quitted

th: Proving 8. ing American enginaëre and foramen, togetuar with

Beveral un-rican-trained Chinese, are superintendi g th; work.

Mr. Chan Chik-yue's son is the offio ›r in c are of the arsenal,

I told Gen-ral Chan that his lan of

as doing were against the wishas of the

(in idest may be alright, but in practice

With 70% of the population in every

district who on, naich r read nor write, it is impossi:le to

expect the peopl› to be able ta understand a fom of Government

which appears to be a mixture of mnglish, French, American and

Pussian mathoda o: Governmenti

7. GIBILI

Government and what he

CareLLEL B. In theory,

they do not hold water.

If he really visitas me to share

the responsibility with him, I must have the Government so organ- ised as to suit the requirements of the people, which would be

somewhat after the form of the Goverment of Hongkong. Altogether

I talked things over with him for three cours, but no definita

arrangement/

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