CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 78

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(29446).

Sir:-

C.O.

32477

75

AMERICAN BASSY,

LONDON

I SEP 07

August 29th 1907.

It is desired by my Government to extend the

duties of Lieutenant Commander Irving V. Gillis

of the United States Navy, now serving as Naval

Attaché at our Legation at Peking, China, to the

British possessions in the Far East, and I am there-

fore instructed to ask you whether this arrangement

would be agreeable to His Majesty's Government, and

in the event of its proving so, to request that you

will be so good as to cause such instructions to

be given to the Colonial Authorities as will ensure

their kindly reception to Lieutenant Commander Gillis

and their courteous assistance to him in the per-

formance of his duties.

I have &c.,

(Signed)

Whitelaw Reid.

Sir Edward Grey, Bart.,

&c., &c., &c.