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The Governor of Hunghong to the Seanetary of State for the Colomes.

SECRET!

(Recessed 1st June, 1926.)

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In continuation of my secret despatches

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of the 11th and 15th April, I have the honour to inform you that on the 26th April Mr. J.F.Brenan, the acting Consul General at Canton, telegraphed to me

that he had been notified by the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs that Dr. Lam Taz-fung (4) was being sent to Hongkong next day "to continue the informal negotiations for a settlement of the boycott".

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Dr. Lam Taz-fung is a barrister of the Middle Temple and a doctor of medicine. He was formerly employed in the Sanitary Department of Hongkong. Recently he has held office in the province of Kuang-hai as Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and was stationed at Wuchow. His present post is described by him as being "Director of the Central Customs Administration of the Ministry of Finance at Canton". He is not, so far as I can ascertain, a person of much consequence in the

The RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S.AMERY,M.P.,

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