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Hongkong and Canton to wireless messages only, Sir Austen

Chamberlain would view with considerable misgiving the

adoption at the present time of such a course on the ground

that the engagements in question had proved inconvenient

or irksome. An opportunity for negotiating an alteration of

the present arrangement must present itself not later than 1930. If the suggestion made by Sir J. Denison Pender should

prove impracticable, it would seem preferable, therefore, that

the Government of Hongkong should continue to make the best

of the present situation disagreeable though it may be - for

a year or two longer.

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3. Copies of this correspondence are being sent to

the India Office, Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry and

General Post Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

George Mounsey.