CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 500

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RE. 14 AUG 22

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 28th June, 1922,

For 20132

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Enclosure 1.

Enclosure 2.

Sir,

With reference to Sir Edward Stubbs'

Confidential despatches of the 18th March and 12th April,

I have the honour to forward for your information the

attached copy of a despatch, with enclosures, which has

recently been addressed by His Majesty's Consul-General at

Canton to His Majesty's Minister at Peking.

2. I take this opportunity to enclose algo correspondence relating to the banishment from the Colony

of one Chan Ping-shang, President of the Seamen's Union, who during the course of the Seamen's Strike was sentenced at Canton to imprisonment for life for the murder of his wife and for a murderous attack upon a policeman. He was shortly afterwards released by order of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, as mentioned in paragraph 10 of Dr. Jamieson's despatch to the Civil Governor, in the first enclosure to this despatch.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant,

Claudlevem

Officer Administering the Government.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,

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