CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 238

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

ledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant

forwarding a copy of a communication from the China

Association with regard to the closure of the British

Post Office at Tientsin.

I am to express the hope that the arrangement for

a temporary guarantee, mentioned in the letter from

the China Association may be agreed to and to state

that Sir E. Grey proposes to postpone his final re-

commendations until he has considered the despatch

from the Government of HongKong referred to in the

letter from your Department of the 12th ultimo.

A copy is enclosed of the reply sent from this

Department to a communication from the China Associa-

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