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understood to be now in England, for favour of his
observations.
His Lordship ventures to hope that
Sir F. Lugard will be able to suggest some means of
relieving the Indian treasury of at least a portion
of the pensionary liability that has been incurred
in respect of Captain Taylor's service as A.D.0. in
Hongkong, since if the conditions of the appointment
had been explicitly stated in your letter of the 19th
explicitly
April 1907, No.13660, Viscount Morley would have been
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unable to lend Captain Taylor's services, unless
provision for the payment of the pensionary
contributions could have been made.
With reference to the last paragraph of your letter under reply I am to say that in the opinion of this Department the decision conveyed in the last paragraph of Sir R. Ritchie's letter of the 207 23 7th July 1910 F.2450 would be more properly
communicated to Captain Taylor through Sir F. Lugard, and I am to request that, with the Earl of Crewe's
permission