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Personal.

$4236

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/G

5 MAY 1939

BRITISH EMBASSY,

Shanghai. 4.4.09.

177

тият водов

Your letter(26/26/210, of the 19th of January about

the Crown Advocate.

I had to refer the matter to the Consul General and

Mossop because I had no other means of finding answers to your

questions.

For myself I have not seen much of riestwood, but

official correspondence with him passes unter my eye and I an

Teds

bound to say sometimes he has been a bit slow about dealing

with the stuff we send to him.

Phillips, however has more to ao with him and hes

put his views into a letter to me, a copy of which I send you.

I had talk with mossop this morning. 11e confessed

that he had heard that from time to time Priestwood haa bouts

of drinking, but that there had never been any sign of this in

the Court, where his work had been satisfactory. mossop

therefore had no grounds to ask for his dismissal. He added that

socially speaking Priestwood had an inferiority complex which

:

mede him shun the usual parties.

It

N.B,Ronald Esq. C..G. C.V.U.

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