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Sir M. Lampson (Peking)
April 7th 1927.
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3.25 a.m.
April 8th 1927.
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9.00 a.m.
April 8th 1927.
No. 633. (R).
Your telegram No. 201 of yesterday.
Wang Hu-shih and Ting have served on
provisional committee and have invited Tsai to join and nominate remaining Chinese member: they consider Tsai's co-operation essential and prefer to leave him to choose colleague. I concur.
As regards British members I am approaching Young and ladies mentioned. Chinese above mentioned whom I have consulted object to ex officio appoint- ment of Shanghai manager of Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and suggest Hubbard, a personage whom they regard as most suitable instead. I think objection well founded and I recommend Hubbard.
Chinese consider unnecessary and even in- advisable to have representative from Hong Kong or Canton and strongly recommend Dr. Balme and Dr. Grant. The latter is a Canadian born in China, professor of public health in Peking Union Medical College.
He is persona grata with Nationalist government for whom he is making a report on sanitary system of Hankow. I agree that it would be inadvisable to have Hong Kong as such represented on the Committee seeing that university may be beneficiary under fund and I consider Grant would be suitable. Balme also very suitable but if he is asked Maxwell must drop cut. Latter is
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