CO129-518-1 Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong 28-6-1929 - 3-1-1930 — Page 74

In any further communication this subject, please quote

No 4554/4140/10

and address--

not to any person by name,

but to-

The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

RECEIVED

13 SEP 1929,

OOL, OFFICE

Confidenter

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H.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

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11th September, 1929.

Sir,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to refer to

your letter No.62882/29 of the 2nd instant relative to the

Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong.

2.

I am to say that Sir C. Clementi's secret despatch of

the 28th June, on which Mr. Henderson's observations are

requested, indicates that the Governor of Hong Kong has been

in direct communication with His Majesty's Minister at Peking

on this subject, and addressed a confidential despatch thereon

to Sir M. Lampson bearing the same date as the despatch to

Lord Passfield enclosed in your letter under reply. Mr.

Henderson presumes therefore, that some further progress has

been made in the interval which has elapsed towards a satis-

factory settlement of the conditions under which Mr. Wu Min

is to assume duty as telegraph agent of the Chinese Government

in Hong Kong, especially as Sir M. Lampson has furnished no

report on this matter and has not felt it to be necessary to

ask for instructions. Mr. Henderson would suggest, therefore,

that consideration of the important questions of principle

which appear to be involved, together with that of any

instructions to be conveyed to the Governor of Hong Kong or to

Sir M. Lampson, might perhaps be deferred pending the receipt

either of a request for instructions or of definite information

that no practical solution of the question has been discovered.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Douglas Mackellop

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.