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Sky Lord,

Mitish Legution,

279

April 2274, 1923.

with refer one-o

Clive's despatch Es, 136 of

the 14th ulting animadverting upon ewtain misleading state- monta issued by the Peking International Antisopim Association, I have the benow to tanssit herewith a copy of a further commasientien to the press issued in the Assosiation's

containing a demolation of the Goverment of Twitish Herth

This statment follows upon a similer attack upon the deverment of the straite detiäamonts, and is typical of

the attitude towards the British Colonies adapted by the

persona vise control the Association.

It is, in my opinion, most unfortunate that the

Association should devote itself to a overpaign against the

Mitish Colonias based entirely on aseend-hand data, and

conducted by parsome with no sufficient knowledge of the astma...

sonditions in tha Colomies themselves. Their indictments of

the Colonial Govermenta romala umzuvered as there da naturally

no one here with the necessary knowledge to contest the statem

ments and deduatione ventsined therein, and the impression is

inevitably eroated that the misiah lupire Le making little

or ne various offers to suppress the notestie evil. Doviden

the disgredit » which one is bound to believe to be largely

undeserved » Skata threw upon the fritish Colonies in Chinose *y**, a useful handle is supplied to the Chinese thomasīveA for countering œitisim levelled against the appalling state

of affairs in their em seurtry,

qtsess Curzon of Xedleston, K.0., 0.0.8.1., 0.0,1.b..

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