CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928 — Page 228

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23 JAN 1028

OFFICE

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 22nd December, 1927.

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

30016/27 of your confidential despatch of 18th October, 1927,

stenclosing a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office and

requesting to be furnished with a report on the allegations in the memorandum by Lieutenant Commander C. Faure, R.N.,

referred to therein.

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2.

In reply I enclose for your information extracts from minutes written in April last by Mr. E.R. Hallifax,

C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Mr. T.H. King, Director of Criminal Intelligence, for whose views on

the memorandum I asked on its first receipt from His Lajesty's Consul-General, Canton.

3.

I would add that the matter of the Chi Kung T'ong (k'à $) referred to in Mr. Hallifax's minute was carefully considered in Executive Council which directed that

the promoters of the T'ong should be warned that the

organisation of political cliques for interference in Chinese

affairs could not be tolerated in this Colony, and that

persistence on their part would result in their having to

forego its hospitality. The promoters thereupon obediently

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

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