Immediate and Confidential
1507 sec Foreign Office. June 12. 1899.
396
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 9th instant, I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to state for the information of Mr Secretary Chamberlain, that His Lordship has no objection to the Governor of Hongkong complying with the request of the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.