CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 229

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

AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[July 17.]

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SECTION 1010 AUG CO

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No. 1.

Sir,

Foreign Office to Colonial Office.

Foreign Office, July 17, 1909. I AM directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant relative to the tenure of the leased territories adjoining the colony of Hong Kong,

I am to state, in reply, that Sir E. Grey concurs in the reply which Lord Crewe proposes to return to Sir F. Lugard on this subject.

I am, &c.

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F. A. CAMPBELL.