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RECO Rra 25 NOV 10
Peking,
41989
(NOV 17 1910.
October 29, 1910.
417
No. 320.
gir,
We have recently had the pleasure of a visit in
Peking from Sir Frederick Lugard, Governor of Hongkong,
and Lady Lugard, who stayed in the Legation for sight
days on their return journey to Hongkong.
I should not have thought it worth while to mention
this purely private visit in a despatch were it not for
the fact that the Chinese Government and officials ap-
peared to me to go out of their way to show marked civili-
ty and courtesy to my guests and in fact made use of
their visit as a kind of counterblast to the recent Ame-
rican visits which formed the subject of my despatch No.
388 of yesterday, more especially as I knew from private
conversations that many officiale felt that the American
returned students had been allowed to go too far in their
demonstrationfor pro-American zentiments and had by trea-
The Right Honourable
Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.,
etc. etc. ato.
ting