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Mr.Wellesley of the Foreign Office

came to see me about the Governorship of

Hong Kon5. The Foreign Office have, as we

know, been greatly perturbed by the action of

Sir R. Stubbs with regard to Sun Yat Sen.

The Foreign Office, he said, would like us

whenever we were going to appoint a Governor

of Hong Kong to consult them and they were

quite willing in return to submit any name

for the Consul General appointment at Canton

to us.

I pointed out to him that it was

extremely unlikely that the Foreign Office

would know anything about the man whom we

proposed to appoint to Hong Kong inasmuch as he would probably come from the other end of

the world, nor did I think that a promise to

submit our appointments to the Foreign Office

should be entertained. I said, however,

that if I were still here when the vacancy

next occurs I would be quite willing to

communicate privately with the Foreign Office

before an appointment was made.

H.L.

23/9/24.