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request the Admiralty to move Lieutenant Commender

Haslewood to another station, but on further con- sideration, not wianing to damage Lieutenant Commander Halewood's professional prospects, he

wrote privately to the Commodore, suggesting that

he should endeavour to prevent an officer holding

His Majesty's commission from countenancing offensive

attacks on the Chinese community. Apparently the

Commodore spoke to Lieutenant Commander Haslewood

and on his declining to desist from the dampaign,

told him that he proposed to apply for him to bu

transferred to another station. Nothing is known

here as to the circumstances of Lieutenant Commander

Haslewood's resignation which ne presumably tendered

of his own free-will, but it is clear that the

Governor nad no intention of damaging his career.

If he onose to abandon that career himself rather than

relinquish political activities incompatible with his official position, that is a matter for his ownL

conscience, but the Governor cannot be blamed. The

question whether he could be re-instated in tûs navy

is a matter for the Admiralty,

(It may be mentioned with reference to the

incident referred to in paragraphs 2 4 of the articla

that in November 1919 Mrs. Haslewood made a formal

complaint to the Police that a child was being cruelly

illtreated in a Chinese house near her residence.

Investigation showed that the child had been adopted

from one of the ex-German foundling homes on the

recommendation, after careful enquiry, of the Very

Reverend Archdeacon Barnett. She had been refused

permission