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In any further coinmunice- tion on this subject, please quote

No. 30327/09.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

Sir:-

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FOREIGN OFFICE

August

19

1909.

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to ack-

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nowledge receipt of your letter marked 24977 of the

11th instant enclosing the draft of a despatch to the

Governor of Hongkong on the subject of direct com-

munication between His Excellency and His Majesty's

Diplomatic Representatives in the Far East.

I am to inform you in reply that Sir E. Grey

concurs in the terms of Lord Crewe's draft despatch

to Sir F. Lugard; he would however suggest that a

paragraph might be added to the draft, pointing out

that the objections raised by Sir F. Lugard in para-

graph 3 of his despatch of June 12th last are met to

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a considerable extent by the rule laid down in the

last sentence of Lord Crewe's despatch to His Excel-

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lency of May 14th last.

I am, Sir,

e Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Wrangler