CO129-505-6 Chinese telegraph office at Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 8-7-1927 - 29-12-1927 — Page 78

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RECEIVED

F6SEP 1927

COL. OFFICE

12

25

Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the

Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Dated 5th September, 1927.

(Received Colonial Office 12.46 p.m., 5th Septr.1927)

emernog Office telegram No.483 to Lampson.

1 SEP 1921"

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Confidential. Addressed to Secretary of State for

the Colonies, repeated to Peking No.44 and Canton, begins:-

My telegram of 18th July, Confidential, and Foreign

Peking Ministry of Communications has sent to Hong Kong new Superintendent of Chinese Telegraph Office here and has dismissed the present Superintendent. I have for the present refused recognition of the new Superintendent but without recognition he entered

office 1st September and assumed control. I caused the

former Superintendent to be reinstated in control on the same evening. On the 3rd instant I received telegram from the Consul General Canton that the Canton Government does not

want to take over the telegraph office unless it can remain in Hong Kong under the control of the Nationalist Government.

This I cannot allow. Meanwhile I have received information

ic from merchant(s) of Shameen that telegraph intercourse between Canton and Hong Kong by Chinese line is extremely unsatis- factory, it was interrupted on 25 days in August, I have discussed the situation with the local manager of Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Great Northern Telegraph Company and the Government Electrical Engineer and I recommend that these companies should take over the Hong Kong Office of the Chinese Telegraph Administration under a working agreement

the earliest possible moment with the Canton Government at ?

arrangement, as continual friction between the Northern and

?

Failing such an

Southern