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HONG KONG

DATE

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Och 1926

IC. 19099

OCT 1926

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Asst. U.S. of S.

Canton

silmation

officially visit Hongkong first, and then

Canton at earliest possible date. Care

should be taken to emphasise aloofness from

losal politics, but it is essential that

they should go from Hongkong to Canton in a

British vessel, possibly a destroyer, and

without any hindrance from the Cantonese.

Please tell Lord Willingdon that rely on

him to take full account of the almost un-

bearable strain to which Hongkong has been

subjected, of the courage with which it has

A

R CIRCULATION :—

beeh borne and of the feelings which it has

necessarily created.

Very special regard

is due to Hongkong susceptibilities in these

:

circumstances. It is indeed only after

most serious consideration and on balance of

the disadvantages of the two alternatives

that after consultation with my colleagues

I have felt able to approve a visit to

Canton by his mission whilst the boycott is

still enforced.

..OX.

- M

(Intd.) A.G.

20.5.

T

dfs.

Pernt U.S. of 5.

Parby. U.5. of S.

Secretary of State.

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