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Copy.

No.20.

Consular. (29950)

sir:-

STOCKHOLM,

767

September 1st, 1907.

I have the honour to transmit herewith, copy of

a memorandum which Mr. Consul Villiers has drawn up

at my request on the subject of his action with re-

gard to a young English girl, who had been engaged

in the service of a Chinese nobleman resident now

since about a year in the neighbourhood of Stockholm,

and who seems to have been led by her employer to

suppose that she had become his lawful wife by some

fictitious ceremony of marriage. As soon as the

circunstances were brought to my knowledge I laid

the matter before the Secretary General at the

Swedish Foreign Office, who promised to communicate

with the police with a view to having the establish;

ment watched by detectives as well as with the Swe

dish Vigilance Society.

Mr. Villiers was present at the station yeste

day evening but was unable in the crowd of passenger

Sir Edward Grey, Bart.,

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