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BRITISH LEGATION,

3 JAN 12

TOKIO.

Treaty.

No.15.

confidential.

My Lord:

September 23rd, 1901.

With reference to my immediately preceding

despatch of this series and of the 13th instant, I

have the honour to state that I took advantage of an

opportunity on Thursday last to thank the Minister

for Foreign Affairs and Mr. Miyaoka for the instruc-

tions issued to the Yokohama Police in regard to the

supposed fugitive offender or hoard the Steamship

*Peru*.

In the course of conversation with Mr. Miya-

oka, I enquired what progress was being made with the

various Extradition Treaties which I understood the

Japanese Government were negotiating. He replied

that they were at present merely engaged in pour-

parlers with Mexico, Belgium and Holland on the sub-

ject, but that they were studying the matter carefully

in

The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G.,

&c., &c., &c.,

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