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ENCLOSURE NO. 2.
ROBERT HO TUNG.
New Bank Building
4, des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong.
2nd February, 1928.
His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi,K.C.M.G.,
Governor of Hong Kong.
Dear Sir Cecil Clementi,
I have the honour to acknowledge with thanks receipt of
Your Excellency's letter of the 31st ult. with regard to the
declaration which my son Robert made on 2nd August last at the
Chinese Legation in London, and I beg to inform Your Excellency that the step he took in surrendering his British Nationality was taken entirely without my consent or approval, and that it
was a matter of great pain to me.
As to how my son obtained a commission in the army of
Marshal Chang Tso Lin, the circumstances are as follows:-
About 14 months ago he wrote to me informing me that he was about to finish his studies at Woolwich, that he was going to Larkhill to learn Artillery for six months and after that to join the Tank Corps for another six months: that he wished very much to join the Military Staff College in England, but had been informed that, apart from the difficulty of his young age, the fact that he was not a British Army officer constituted an insuperable obstacle to his doing so: that he had learned during his holidays in France from his friends there that he could be admitted into the French Military Staff College for the purpose of studying Strategy and Tactics if he held a commission in the Chinese Army. He though that without a knowledge of Strategy and Tactics he would never be able to become an efficient
soldier
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