CO129-518-1 Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong 28-6-1929 - 3-1-1930 — Page 44

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(11/7.7.)

BRITISH LEGATION. PEKING.

29th October 1929.

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His Excellency

My dear Ülementi,

I have been thinking over your despatch Number

49 of September 27th about the Chinese Telegraph Offias

in Hong Kong and meanwhile have received a further son-

manidation from Dr. Yung on the subject, a tr∙nelation

of which is malostá.

I am moet anxious to get this petty affair

tidied up, but I honestly don't think there in mach chunac

of doing so if we continue on the present lines of argu-

ing what the chinese ought to do. For instance, if I

were to communiste the sense of your present despatah

to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I really do not

think it would help us in the least. Owing to the 300-

plic: tions resulting from your being in Hong Kong and sy

being in Peking sná Dr. Sung being in Xanking, added to

the fact that the latter is sa extremely busy and sQING»

what forgetful individual with most inadequate ataff and

Mir Cecil Clementi, K.G«X«G»,

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Governor,