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I now turn to certain specific points in Your
Grace's telegram.
The Chinese Minister protests against the 'open support' given by this Goverment to Sun Yat Sen in his
There is no foundation what- attempt to seize the Customs. ever for this statement. This Government has given no
I have taken support to Sun in this or any other matter.
no action of any kind except to transmit to Your Grace and to H.M's Minister at Peking at Sun's request a statement
of his position. I will recur to this later.
The next complaint is of my 'cordial reception*
of Sun. The facts are these. When Sun's party regained power in Canton he was in Shanghai and in order to get back
I was to Canton he had to pass through Hong Kong.
approached through devious channels with an enquiry whether I would receive him on his way through. I replied in the same way that I would not receive 'President Syn Yat Sen
.outhern of the Chinese Republic" or the "President of the Republic" or any other official unrecognised by H.M's Government but that I should be pleased to meet Dr.Sun Yat Sen, a distinguished stranger and an ex-President of China; and should be glad if he would lunch with me.
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