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Office of the Governor-General of the Philippine
My dear Sir Francis,
Islands. 28530
Manila, une31761911.
You will doubtless have received before this arrives my two cablegrams, copies of which are inclosed herewith, in response to the very kind invitation extended in your letter of the thirty-first of May. The cordial sentiments which prompted the sugestion of your Committee were much appreciated and, I need hardly add, heartily reciprocated by my fellow countrymen in these Islands.
I regret very much that owing to the Vice- Governor's absence it is impossible for me to leave the Philip- -pines at this time, but I have taken much pleasure in naming a delegation to represent these Islands in Hongkong at the festivi- -ties attending the Coronation and to convey to the British Colony in your city our warmest congratulations and good wishes in con- -nection with that interesting event,
As indicated in my cablegram of today, the personnel of the delegation named is as follows:-
Honorable C. B. Elliott, Secretary of Commerce and
Police, accompanied by Mrs. Elliott and by
Captain Holmes, Philippines Constabulary, Aide-de-
-Camp.
Brigadier-General John J. Pershing, U.S.Army, Governor
of the loro Province, accompanied by Lieutenant Swift, Twelfth U.S.Cavalry, Aide-de-Camp.
Doctor Paul C. Freer, Director of the Bureau of Science Colonel John L. Coamberlain of the Inspector-General's
Department, U.S.Army, and Mrs. Chamberlain.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Derham.
The party expects to sail from here the
evening