There is one question I would like to touch upon before I sit down and that is the failure on the part of our authorities to maintain a Consul at Changsha. We feel very strongly that Changsha is much too important to be left without Consular representation and it is @ port which, with the railway completed, will assume greater importance still in the future.
It has been understood that the difficulty has been shortage of stof but we trust that in these dificult, times every effort wil keep the Consular staff at strength in order to provide against, all contingencies, We have heard that Mr. Louis Beale completes his term of office in China as His Majesty's Commercial Counsellor, This means that} there fs a possibility of his transfer elsewhere. May I urge that every effort be made to second him for an extended period. Wo here in Hankow have Port: exigencies of his work have meant that this has been the only visit we have had and we should like ery timo wien he very definite Tons to British commer. ERP iterate Ghia may I repeat Bow confident we are afore I propose your healt
{hak you will succeed in your rear tek ud to manure you of the fayal Support, of the Beltish community Hankow. fic Nisaome tort Tam extremely glad that I have nan taut eaten of pea Lil cat bear if, Haake, oe of rating Penns ne sri 8 see ended cane icermare forte der soda ete drop ma dee rma et Renae acai Hie See fr the ate foe tne cig antes comeing tu cans selion oe tee Saeed lik Nee fee Ae ea Dea merce Real caer ft copet Pecan ab one ato crore Wo Yee Dene side, sam act, 2 salt Jog bar coroner best-of it, and succeeded in turning it to good account. What you are shore attempting, and indeed achiev. ing, is an enterprise of ce-operation with the Chinese. I have ventured Binee I have been in China to preach Such ce-operation. "Tt was. easy enough for me to preach: you here fave oen carrying out in. practice what T have lately begun to 'The agreement has, -T believe, proved a markedly successful expe Inene in' Sing-Tiitish ce-operation tiunicipal sifara and am example, of Sthat such real cooperation with the Chinese can accomplish.
'e-must certainly be admitted that Hankow has had gore than its fair share of trouble when you remember that natural disasters have come on top of political disturbances to make
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