PARAPHRASE of a TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong
to the Secretary of State for the Colonies
Dated 26th March 1927.
(Received in the Colonial Office at 5.55 a.m.
on 26th March).
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Secret.
Personal for Secretary of State.
On March 30th the District Watchmen Committee
will meet at Government House. For particulars of
this Committee which is the most influential Chinese
body politic in Hong Kong, I would invite reference
to page 47 of the Civil Service List for 1927. The
Secretary for Chinese Affairs has conveyed to me a
message from the members of the Committee expressing
their hope that I will give them an explicit assurance
that His Majesty's Government have no intention of
renditing this Colony or its new territories. The
moment seems to me to be opportune for a message as
suggested in your personal telegram to me of February
I request therefore that you will give me
authority to convey to the Committee on your behalf
an assurance to the following effect, namely that
His Majesty's Government will give the fullest
protection to Hong Kong and its new territories during
the civil war now unhappily raging in China and that
His Majesty's Government have no intention whatever
any jorda
གཅེ, མལ. of surrendering Hong Kong or its new territories which
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would propose that after my meeting with the Committee
this message should be issued in English and Chinese.
It would have a very good effect if you were to add
an expression of sympathy with the Colony in the
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