CO129-518-1 Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong 28-6-1929 - 3-1-1930 — Page 27

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Enclo. No. 3.

Sacl. 1o. 4.

2.

Mr. Chu

Ch

Subsequently, on the 4th of october, 1929,

-nien, who was on his way through

long song to take up the post of Chinese inister

to sweden, lunched with kr. southor, then administering the Government during my temporary absence, and after lunch brought up the question of the Chinese Telegraph Office in this colony. cnclose copy of a memorandum written by kr. Southorn,

giving an account or this conversation.

You will

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notice that Hr. Southor informed Er. Chu that

application by the Chinese Government for the

consent of this Government to the appointment of a

uperintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Office in

Hong Kong must not be regarded as a purely formal matter, but that this Government had always requested

that a commercial man with a knowledge of business

should be appointed as Superintendent.

3.

Nothing further occurr, in connection

with this matter, until the 4th of Novelizer, 1929,

when kr. Kong siu-lui, the present superintendent of

this Telegraph Office, called to sec kr. 1.5.0. North,

then actin: as secretary for Chinese Affairs, and

showed him the attached letter, of which I enclose &

copy both in the original Chinese and in an English

translation, from the Director of Telegraph in Canton.

This letter is addressed to kr. kon as

"EX-Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Office

in Hong Kong. It proceeds to transcribe a telegram

sent by Mr. Su to the inistry of Communications,

stating that he had been advised in writing by the

Government of liong Kong not to take over charge of the

Telegraph