CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928 — Page 121

SECRET

Copies to:-

Peking No./7

Canton No. 41.

REC

126MAR 329

52740

13

CE

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

27

121

HONGKONG,

23rd February, 1928.

Sir,

no23

ZO. ( £)

Lan

2017

In continuation of my Secret despatch of

7th February, on the subject of the Chinese Telegraph

Office in Hong Kong, I have the honour to enclose a

translation of a report which was published in the Man

Kwok Yat Po (Republican Daily News) at Canton on 4th

February last. The article is another typical example

of the way in which the present position affords a handle

to the enemies of this Colony and it aptly illustrates

my comments on Mr. Ch'ên Ching-wen's Parthian shot, of

which it is the Cantonese counterpart.

2.

As reported in my telegram of 20th

February, the draft of which was seen and approved by

Sir Miles Lampson during his visit to me in Hong Kong, I propose, subject to your approval, to put an end without further delay to these unseenly claims and counter-claims

by rival Chinese factions to exercise rights within a

British Colony by notifying Mr. Lau Cheuk-pan that I

cannot permit him to function here any longer as Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Office and that

he must vacate the premises at once and hand over to the

Electrical

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&C..

&c.,

&c.