CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 284

In any further communica

tion on this subject, please quote

No.

15958/09.

and address ---

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London,

Sir:-

C.0. 15780

I MAY OC

FOREIGN OFFICE

May to 1909.

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I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to

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acknowledge the receipt of your letter 5748/1909 of

the 27th ultimo forwarding, for his observations,

the

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draft of a despatch which the Earl of Crewe proposes

1

to address to the Governor of HongKong calling his

attention to the undesirability of communicating di-

rectly with His Majesty's Representatives in China

and Japan except on matters in which it is clear that

no question of principle is involved.

Sir E.Grey observes that Lord Crewe lays down the

principle that direct communications between Sir F.

Lugard and His Majesty's Representatives at Tokio and

Peking should be confined to matters of routine and

that the case which he has especially in mind is

that in which Sir F.Lugard asked Sir J.Jordan to ap-

proach the Chinese Government with a view to the grant

of

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.