CO129-518-3 Proposals to hold periodical conferences between principal British authorities in China- and the government in... 13-8-1929 - 31-12-1929 — Page 37

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meet once at least in every year; and I further

suggest that the best meeting-place would be Hong Kong,

because it would attract less notice if His Majesty's

Minister were to visit this Colony at stated intervals,

than if the General, the Admiral and the Governor of

Hong Kong were periodically to meet His Majesty's Minister at Shanghai, Peking or some other place in

China. It is, of course, both necessary and desirable

that the Admiral, the General and the Governor of

Hong Kong should visit from time to time important

centres in China; and, as a matter of fact, we have

each of us done this; but the best place for a

conference of the principal British authorities,

whom I have named, would, I venture to think, be in

British territory; and for that reason I propose that

the meeting-place should be Hong Kong.