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The Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of
State for the Colonies, and with reference to his
letter of the 15th instant respecting the Mission of
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur to invest His Maj-
esty the Emperor of Japan with the Ensigns of the
Garter, is directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to
state, for the information of the Earl of Elgin, that
it has been found that the arrangements at present
made for the Mission will not admit of Prince Arthur
A visiting Canton.
Foreign Office,
December 21st, 1905.