CO129-518-1 Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong 28-6-1929 - 3-1-1930 — Page 46

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knew just what you want in the way of notification and

acsurances, I will endeavour to get them from Dr. Sang.

For instance, an I correct in supposing that as regarÜ

(1) you require prior notification through me of the

san's name before he takes up his appointsent, together

with sense desaription of his previous services and quaë

ifications for the post - so that you own object if he

io unacceptabla - and also aasuzunces that he will ga0-

fine himself to his job and refrain from all political

activities; und as regards (2) that, having been aotâ-

fied (better late than never) of Lu's Daten, you now re-

quire the above azeurences in hio osse?

Maase do not think that I do not realise your

difficulties and your objections to the whole system of

having this office established in the Colony. Our obli-

gations, such as they are, to let it remain there under

the agreement of 1884, and the prog and guns of closing

it in disregard of that agreement, have, I think, bean

fully threshed out in the past. But assuming that we ûe

not want to close the office if we dan help it and that

your Government wishes to reusin on good terme with Han- ing. I do hope that you will bear in mind the part that

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