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wrepliente

on mit Wodehouse's RF

NO CONFIDENTI AL.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

RECEIVED

29 JUL 1930

COL, OFFICE

3

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG 25th June, 1930.

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My Lord,

I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of Your Lordship's confidential despatch

of the 23rd of April, 1930, on the subject of the proposed appointment of Mr. T.H. King to the new post of Deputy Inspector General of Police, involving the supersession of Mr. P.P.J. Wodehouse.

2. Before I left London, Mr. W.D. Ellis, of

the Colonial Office, mentioned Mr. Wodehouse's case

to me, and I said that I would make full enquiries.

I consulted Sir Claud Severn, late Colonial

Secretary of Hong Kong, who was a personal friend

of Mr. Wodehouse and had known him, both privately

and officially, for a number of years. passed through Malaya, I consulted Sir Cecil Clementi.

As I

Both these gentlemen were very definite in their

opinion that, while Mr. Wodehouse had done

meritorious work, he was not fitted for promotion to

a more responsible post. I gathered that his

sense of responsibility is not strong.

LORD PASSFIELD,

&C.,

&c.,

&c.

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