CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936 — Page 48

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Copies to H.B.M.Ambassador,Peking (36)

H.B.M.Consul-General, Canton (70)

Naval Commander-in-Chief. General Officer Commanding.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

24th September, 1936.

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Sir,

With reference to your telegram No.128 of the

14th September, 1936, authorising my recent informal visit to

Canton I have the honour to enclose a newspaper cutting from

the "Hong Kong Sunday Herald" of the 20th September current

which gives a generally adequate and accurate account of the

proceedings during my brief stay there. The warmth of the

welcome extended to myself and my wife exceeded my most

sanguine expectations and, as the informality of our visit

had been emphasised, the Guards of Honour and the Bands

came as a complete surprise not only to me but to Mr. H.

Phillips, the Consul-General. Of the latter's excellent

prearrangements, constant assistance and hospitality

throughout my stay I cannot speak too gratefully; the success

of the visit and its enjoyableness were due in a major degree

to him and to the remarkably friendly relations which he has

already formed with the officers of the new régime in Kwantung. I came away feeling that the atmosphere which had surrounded

every incident in our programme could not have been bettered; it was indeed friendly to the point of geniality, and the

personal touch which has been established will, I trust,

prove useful in future dealings with Canton.

2.

My conversations with the Provincial Officials

never once encroached on the field of politics; there was just

friendly intercourse with occasional pleasant references to

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.

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