CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3] — Page 151

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3.

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Gut not tagong nd at blow not ¡notterðidra meddo

Zona oem of Fan shira eŠAU? 70 vedutos? sft to nolaloeh

oð eldant Antwex!I I .eonetate" zedizut

-aap motena nyforit atens hDraw job w Jae

sir,

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anklasb de urotto Gro. * dat bis of avad I

C.150

Chambers,

9332

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

MAR OF

1st. February, 1909.

I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excel-

-lency's letter of 29th. January with reference to Mr. Ho Tung's

10 medesaat bly od sire*

སྟག་ ་

to his "ettal ZuO" brawrot [Iere T

tenancy of the Fyrle in reply to mine.

2.

ད་འ ོང་

* {.52)

I am singularly unfortunate in conveying rự

meaning to Your Excellency. My letter was clearly a reply to the

Secretary of State's despatch to Your Excellency, and it did not

seam to be necessary to insert a special request that it should

be forwarded to the Secretary of State. The last paragraph did

not contain a request to Your Txcellency, but to the Secretary

of State.

TO

3.

I regret that I am unable to appreciate Your

Excellency's endeavour to treat the reference of the question

to the Secretary of State as a reference to arbitration. It was

not, nor could it be considered as such. I have treated the

Government with the utmost consideration from the first, far

more so than an ordinary person would have done whose rights

of property had been interfered with, as he thought illegally;

and in any subsequent proceedings, which I fear are now almost

inevitable, I should much regret to find the Government relying

on