CO129-505-6 Chinese telegraph office at Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 8-7-1927 - 29-12-1927 — Page 35

Copy.

No. 1023 (17198/27)

(F8426/30/10)

Copy to

Hongkong, Canton.

ir.

British Legation,

Faking.

19th September, 1927.

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with reference to the Governor of Hongkong**

telegram of September 5th to the Secretary of State for

the Colonies on the subject of the Chinese Telegraph

Office in Hongkong, I have the honour to report that the

Minister of Communications sent a member of his staff,

r. J.H.Ju, to this Legation on September 14th to make

representations regarding the non-recognition by the

Hongkong Government of his appointee to the post of

Superintendent of the Hongkong office.

That

2. In reply Mr. Ju was briefly informed of the

Hongkong Government's attitude in the matter. The

Canton Government would no longer recognise appointments

to the post made fro· Peking and the Colony was as a

result being drawn into a purely Chinese dispute.

could not contime and His Excellency the Governor of

Hongkong had proposed to His Majesty's Governcent that

failing any other solution the Chinese Telegra ̧h Office in

Hongkong should be closed down altogether. that the

future arrangements would be could not be foretold, but

the functions of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hongkong

were mainly concerned with Louth China and this would

obviously have to be taken into consideration in coming to

a decision on the question.

The Right Honourable

Sir Austen Chamberlain, F.C., K.G.,

atc..

etc..

etc., Foreign Office.

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