CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928 — Page 25

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Sir,

27th June, 1928.

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I have the honour to forward for

your information copies of correspondence noted

Telegram of 22.6.28 from Secretary of

State.

Letter of 26.6.28 from the Great Northern Telegraph Co. and the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co.

in the margin: and to inform

you that consequently this

Government is prepared to

accept the nomination by the Canton Government

of Mr. Kong Siu-lui () to the post of

Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph

Administration in Hong Kong. I shall be glad,

therefore, if you will be good enough to convey

this information to the Canton Government.

In accepting this nomination however

this Government does not recede from its position

that the continuance of the Chinese Telegraph

Office under a Chinese official in Hong Kong is

an unsatisfactory arrangement which this

Government considers should not be perpetuated.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

(sa.) W. T. Southorn.

Officer Administering the Government.

His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,

CANTON.