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Peking, May 6th., 1909392

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

Reg 26, JUL 091

of Your Excellency's letter of April 21st suggesting that, in

return for the services rendered by the Hongkong Observatory

to shipping frequenting the South coast of China, the Chinese Government should justify their claims to the atoll of Pratas,

and the recognition of these claims by His Majesty's Government, by establishing an observation station on the atoll.

I understand that a question has arisen

between the Japanese and Chinese Governments in regard to the operations of some Japanese subjects on the atoll, and it

appears to re that a suggestion at this juncture in the sense

proposed might be open to misconstruction. My Japanese colleague could hardly fail to regard it, no matter how carefully advanced

as an act of intervention of a scarcely friendly character,

while the Chinese Authorities would probably interpret it as an

encouragement to present a more stubborn front to the Japanese representations. These considerations, which may not have

occurred to Your Excellency at the date of your letter, seem to

me to render the present moment inopportune for putting forward

a request, which, if there were no discussion on the subject of

the atoll between Japan and China, would be perfectly reason-

-able and advantageous.

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His Excellency

Sir F. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.0..

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(Sa.) J. N. Jordan,