CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928 — Page 23

NO SECRET.

Copics to:-

Canton No.173.

Peking No. 53.

Sir,

V

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG.

20th July, 1928.

50

23

(F. 8203/26.)

Cheaney

In continuation of Sir Cecil Clementi's

secret despatch of 4th May, 1926, on the subject

of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong, and

with reference to the proposal in my telegram of

(42\16th June, 1928, approved by you in your telegram

(45)

of 22nd June, 1928, to accept the substitution of

an approved Canton nominee for the Superintendent

of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong then

holding office, I have the honour to enclose for

your information a copy of my letter of 27th June,

1928, to the Consul-General, Canton, on the

subject.

2.

The Canton Government instructed Mr. Kong Siu Lou, (1), (Chiang Hsiao Lu) to take

up his post as Superintendent of the Chinese

Telegraph Office, Hong Kong, and Mr. Kong duly

reported his arrival on June 29th.

The Eastern

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&C.,

&C.,

&c.

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