CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 202

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H. B. M. CONSULATE,

KIUNGCHOW.

14th February, 1926.

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In paragraph 3 of my desƊatch No. 6 of February 2nd I had the honour to report an attack by students and Cantonese soldiers on the American Presbyterian Mission

at Kacher.

The grant by General Teng Pan-yin of a strip of land to the Mission provided the shadow of an exause for this incident, but at Nodda - the other American Mission

station in the interior - there has been an advance in frightfulness, for which no excuse is apparent. The enclosed letter to the Mission at Hoihow was written

by an American lady missiomry, who has been n Nodo a

for over 30 years. It speaks for itself.

3.

The Mission again took this case up with the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs before informing me of the facts, and subsequently politely declined my offer

to see the Commissioner on the subject - an offer which

I felt bound to make in order to cover ayself against

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a charge of negleat of duty and of common humanity,

•Mission maintains cordial so sial relationa with me and

so far recognises my position sa Consul in charge of

American interests as to forward copies of their

correspondence with the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs

to the American Consul General at Canton through this

Consulate.

This anxiety to dissociate themselves in the

minds of the Chinese from any connection with Great Britain

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