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then, but we do not see how his transfer from Hong Kong

would remedy a defect of knowledge on the part of the Governor, though it might give us a Governor with more

moderate judgment and less assurance unless indeed a

governor were appointed from the Consular Service in China,

which apart from the absence of administrative experience would give the greatest dissatisfaction to our countrymer.

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in the Colony and renewed discouragement to our own Colonial Service which has already been severely disappoint-

ed by the selection of outsiders for the plums of the

service which they have aspired to as the chief reward for

a lifetime of tropical exile.

The proper system is to surround the Governor

with advisers who have spent their whole service in Hong

Kong and

who keep in close touch with the consular

service in China. We have already such advisers,

and

since the Hong Kong strike we have arranged for the chief

of them - the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to visit

Canton weekly. We also told the Foreign Office that the

Governor would welcome frequent opportunities for inter-

change of views between Mr Jamieson or one of his staff

and the Colonial Government in Hong Kong. The Foreign

Office in turn informed us that Mr Jamieson had been

instructed to pay frequent visits to Hong Kong and to co-

operate and communicate fully with the Colonial Government

on all matters of common interest. It is difficult to see

how better arrangements could be made for liaison between

Canton and Hong Kong, but I fear that the crux at present

consiste