In any further communica
tion on this subject, please quote
No.
15958/09.
and address ---
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London,
Sir:-
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I MAY OC
FOREIGN OFFICE
May to 1909.
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I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to
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acknowledge the receipt of your letter 5748/1909 of
the 27th ultimo forwarding, for his observations,
the
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draft of a despatch which the Earl of Crewe proposes
1
to address to the Governor of HongKong calling his
attention to the undesirability of communicating di-
rectly with His Majesty's Representatives in China
and Japan except on matters in which it is clear that
no question of principle is involved.
Sir E.Grey observes that Lord Crewe lays down the
principle that direct communications between Sir F.
Lugard and His Majesty's Representatives at Tokio and
Peking should be confined to matters of routine and
that the case which he has especially in mind is
that in which Sir F.Lugard asked Sir J.Jordan to ap-
proach the Chinese Government with a view to the grant
of
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.