Selected, I suppose, the Colony. His salary is to be expected to pay it. I don't see that to be cast called his travelling expenses hot. Service to bear the whole cost.
The taxpayers of ten Colonies don't dance to the Engineer's tune and expect better. It is to be paid out of the public funds for it.
West, July 27.
In any further communication on this subject, please quote No.23084 and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.
C.O. 26166 TR. 20 JUL 08 FOREIGN OFFICE July 18, 1908. 129 10. 18124
Sir:- I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 18124/1908 of the 22nd ultimo in regard to the suggestions of the United States Government as to the constitution, procedure, scope, and time and place of meeting of the proposed Joint International Opium Commission at Shanghai.
I am to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a letter from the India Office, from which you will perceive that the Secretary of State for India expresses views in general harmony with those of the Earl of Crewe.
Sir E. Grey considers that the reply to the United States Government should be on the lines suggested by the India Office, and I am to enclose a draft of the communication he would propose to address to the United States Government.
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.