This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government. 680
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[December 2.]
SECTION 2.
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Rec REC 23 DEC 08
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.
Foreign Office, December 2, 1908.- WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 17th June last, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a communication which has been made to him by the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires, inviting attention to the continuance of the private boycott of Japanese goods at Hong Kong, and requesting that the movements of certain Chinese Societies, which act as ringleaders, may be watched, and that telegraphic instructions may be sent to the Governor of Hong Kong to urge a more rigid control of the boycott.
Sir E. Grey will be glad if the Earl of Crewe will cause telegraphic instructions to be dispatched to Sir F. Lugard in this sense, together with a request that he will do all he can to prevent the boycott being carried on by intimidation.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Communicated by the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires, December 1, 1908.
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