CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 455

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

C.O. 19075

This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

ONFIDENTIAL.

[13344]

No. 1.

Pro

ReGP 2 JUN 09

[April 8.]

SECTION 1.

453

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Sir,

Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received April 8.)

Downing Street, April 7, 1909. I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo, inclosing paraphrase of a telegram from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio respecting an inquiry which he has received from the Governor of Hong Kong as to the attitude of the Japanese Government in regard to Chinese sovereign rights over the Islands of Pratas.

2. Lord Crowe desires me to express his concurrence in the reply which it is proposed to send to Sir C. MacDonald.

I am, &c.

(Signed)

H. BERTRAM COX.

[2243 h-1]

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