D.
Сетаня
In any further communication on this subject, please quote
No. 2495/72/10
and address-
not to any person by name,
but to-
The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S. W.1.
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بره
Sir,
RECEIVED
1 JUL 1929
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FOREIGN OFFICE
S.W.1.
28th June, 1929.
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COL. OFFICE
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson
to
refer to your letter of the 1st May and to previous
correspondence respecting the sinking of the s.s. "Irene"
off Bias Bay on the 20th October, 1927.
2. I am to transmit to you herewith, to be laid
before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the
draft of a despatch which Mr. Henderson proposes, subject
to Lord Passfield's concurrence, to address to His Majesty's
Minister at Peking, instructing him to present to the
Chinese Government a Note, the draft of which is also
enclosed, its terms being similarly subject to the con-
currence of His Lordship, in reply to the claim for
compensation advanced in the Note from the Chinese Minister
for Foreign Affairs dated the 23rd of January 1929, copy
of which was forwarded to you in Foreign Office letter of
the 12th of April 1929 No. F 1605/72/10.
3. A similar letter is being addressed to the
Admiralty.
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
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