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Peking No. 52.
Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG.
18th October,/1926.
With reference to your secret despatch of 30th August, 1926, and to its enclosures, I have the honour to say that the Report of the British China Indemnity Deputation to the Advisory Committee is a great disappointment to me. I had hoped that the effect of Lord Willingdon's Deputation would be to amooth the way to better conditions in China; but I cannot resist the conviction that the Report is calculated to exasperate and prolong the present difficulties and will do nothing to maintain the prestige of Great Britain in China.
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At the outset I am constrained to protest against that paragraph on Page 12 of the Report in which the Deputation seeks to justify its omission to visit Hong Kong. The impression conveyed by this paragraph is, I submit, that of two quarrelsome neighbours, both of whom are in the wrong. The Deputation, therefore, ignores both Hong Kong and Canton though it adds as an obvious afterthought (page 63) that the University of Hong Kong, which its members declined to visit, and which the majority
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
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