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In any further communication
ou this subject, please quote
No. 14595/12.
and address-
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London.
Sir: -
CO 11676
RECA
Rr 17 APque OFFICE
April
192
1912.
1
I am instructed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to
Yo.
acknowledge the receipt of your letter, (9017/1912) of the
4th. instant transmitting a despatch from the Government
of Hongkong in which it is proposed to make what is
practically a free grant of land to the Japanese Community
in that Colony for the purpose of the erection of a
Buddhist Temple, and suggesting that Sir F. Lugard should
be informed in reply that Mr. Harcourt is not prepared
to agree to the free grant of the land but that he is
willing to allow the land to be leased at a rent of Three
hundred dollars a year.
In reply I am to state that, in view of our close
1
relations with Japan, the free gift of a site for a
Japanese Buddhist temple would, in Sir E. Grey's opinion,
be a gracious and generous act, especially as Sir F.Lugard
explains
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.