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in any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No,
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28684/11.
26864
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
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Sir:-
London.
FOREIGN OFFICE
C O
24314
July 2
25 JU
⠀
164
1911.
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit
to you herewith a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's
1
Minister at Peking drawing attention to an agreement
for co-operation in certain police matters which has
been negotiated by His Excellency the Governor of Hong
Kong with a representative of the Viceroy at Canton.
Sir J. Jordan points out that the negotiations were
carried on by the Colonial Government independently of
His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton to whom no
previous communication appears to have been addressed
upon the subject.
The correspondence of the year 1885 referred to by
Sir J. Jordan shows that the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs in that year approved the terms of a
despatch addressed by Mr. O'Conor, at that time Her
Majesty's Minister at Peking, to Sir G. Bowen in which
the former reaffirmed the instructions issued in 1869,
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
after