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Enclosure
1.
300
Government House,
Hongkong, 21st. April, 1909.
C.O. 24977
gir,
RM220 JUL 09
With reference to my Secret Despatch of the 15th. of September last, I have the honour to transmit the enclosed copy of a despatch which I addressed on the 4th. of February to the Secretary of State for the Colonies enquiring whether I was at liberty to state, in answer to a question put by a Member of the Legislative Council, that the Atoll of Pratas is claimed by China; together with a copy of a telegram which I have now received from Lord Crewe stating that there is no objection to my so replying.
2.
You will have learned from my despatches of the 23rd. of July and 4th. of September that the institution of an observation station with Wireless Telegraph Installation on the Atoll would be of immense advantage during the typhoon season for the forecasting of storms in the Southern portions of the China Sea, and a protection to all shipping frequenting the Southern coasts of China.
At present at Canton, Swatow, and other neighbouring Chinese Ports are dependent for warning of approaching typhoons upon the Hongkong Observatory, and expensive Institution which gratuitously and in the common interests of humanity furnishes directly to the Chinese Authorities at Canton through the Imperial Maritime Customs, and generally by its published warnings to all shipping both foreign and native frequenting the Southern seas, information regarding the approach of typhoons based on the daily reports received from the various observation stations with which it is in communication.
3.
In return for this service which this Government gladly renders to the Chinese Authorities and to the Chinese public, I have to suggest that the Chinese Government should
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COPY.
Enclosure
1.
300
Government House,
Hongkong, 2lat. April, 1909.
C.0.
24977
gir,
RM220 JUL 09
With reference to my Secret Despatch of
the 15th. of September last, I have the honour to transmit the enclosed copy of a despatch which I addressed on the 4th. of February to the Secretary of State for the Colonies enquiring whether I was at liberty to state, in answer to a question put by a Member of the Legislative Council, that the Atoll of Pratas is claimed by China; together with a copy of a telegram which I have now received from Lord Crewe stating that there is no
objection to my so replying.
2.
You will have learned from my despatches of
the 23rd. of July and 4th. of September that the institution of an observation station with Wireless Telegraph Installation on the Atoll would be of immense advantage during the typhoon season for the forecasting of storms in the Southern portions of the China Sea, and a protection to all shipping frequenting
the Southern coasts of China.
At present at Canton, Swatow, and other neighbouring Chinese Ports are dependent for warning of approach- -ing typhoons upon the Hongkong Observatory, and expensive Institution which gratuitously and in the common interests of humanity furnishes directly to the Chinese Authorities at Canton through the Imperial Maritime Customs, and generally by its published warnings to all shipping both foreign and native frequenting the Southern seas, information regarding the approach of typhoons based on the daily reports received from the various observation stations with which it is in communication.
3.
In return for this service which this
Government gladly renders to the Chinese Authorities and to the Chinese public, I have to suggest that the Chinese Government
should
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