lent & expand the telegram in a despatch
?
Answer India Office as above inform I Lowson. Who will, I believe, go next day telegraph to Governor C.P.L. at own expense.
8442/2
2 Feb
It is requested that in any further communication on this subject the under-mentioned letter and number may be quoted, and the reply addressed to— The Under Secretary of State for India, India Office.
On Juday
R. & S. 310.
Sir,
Whitehall, S. W.
India Office,
RECR
C. o.
2471
Whitehall, 2 FEB 27
London, S. W.
February 1897.
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The Bombay Government have asked that, if possible, the temporary services of Dr. J.A. Lowson of the Colonial Service may be obtained for temporary employment on the treatment and prevention of plague in the Bombay presidency.
The Secretary of State for India directs me to enquire whether Mr. Secretary Chamberlain would permit Dr. Lowson to volunteer for plague duty at Bombay.
The duty might last for 4 to 8 months.
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
Y 26774. 4 rms.-12/94. 1. 2354.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
Sir,
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