CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 744

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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and I have never heard it suggested

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that the Chemise forernment wine precluded from taking

this course hav

by any contractual obligation.

Even if it had any

night

to satruct such a project

I think that in the interests of the maintenance of good neations blusen Great Britain and China it worked not be wise to attempt to do so and I suggest therfore

that in Secrotan Churchill should express

in

his

Concernthu th

of the tams of the reply which Lord Balfour proposed

& return

Its a matter of fact. I do not blow that the question is y that might practical importance. As I han- already sherred, the idea of making a deep-erator post at Caration or at Whampoa has been put forward many

hen dropped tomes in recent years. It has

always

as

as it was secimaly exaurived and I am confident's theat it always will b

will br. The suggesti in could not have bem brought app againm nord if it had not hem that Seen Yat Sen's mad habrod of Great Britain and more Especially of Hongking had made him desirous of finding any possible means of injuring British Prade

ん fur Storaus had not also been obsessed by similar

and

desires.

The practical difficulties are mormones. Canton livs some hundred miles or so

up a tortuous inter full of banks & sherals, needing even with small

verse's careful pilotage. To bring ocean-ging steamers

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