CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 408

lu any further communion. tion on this subject, please quote

No. 17252/07.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

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12 JUL 07

FOREIGN

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OFFICE

1907.

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Sir:

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letter 17748/1907 of the

25th May, relative to the claim of 0 Yung against the Unit-

ed States Government and enclosing both the American and

the claimant's version of the circumstances.

In view of the conflicting nature of the state-

ments it is very regrettable that the United States

Authorities did not permit the case to be thoroughly

investigated in the HongKong Courts, where it would

have been possible to ascertain the truth.

As it is, O Yung has no means of redress in Hong-

Kong and, in these circumstances Sir E. Grey is anxious

that he should be afforded some other opportunity of

putting forward a claim for compensation against the

United States Government.

It has accordingly been decided to send the de-

ne Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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