CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6] — Page 292

ONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

My Lord,

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15 JUN 08

Government House,

Hongkong, 14th. May, 1908.

I have the honour to ask that Your

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Lordship may be pleased to move the Foreign Office to

forward the "Foreign Office Prints" on "Affairs of China”

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and "Chinese Ratts" to your Department for transmission to

this Government in regular sequence and at the earliest

possible dates. These Confidential Prints reach me often

many months after the date on which they were received by

or despatched from the Foreign Office and many papers es-

-sential to an understanding of the sequence of events and

the steps taken are often omitted. By last mail for in-

-stance I received a printed copy of a Despatch from Admiral

Moore of December, 1907, which formed an important link in

the events connected with the question of Piracy in Canton

Waters. This subject intimately affects the interests of

this Colony, and has formed the subject of correspondence

between this Government and His Majesty's Minister at

IGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CREWE,

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