CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 170

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16 Sept (end 2,3 5699/09) does not

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given confidential despatch. I

In any further communica-

tion on this subject, please quote

No. 41657/09.

and address ----

The Under-Secretary of Stato,

Foreign Office,

London.

Jonfidential.

Sir:

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Reet 27 NOV 09

FOREIGN OFFICE

November 20 1909.

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

You

ledge the receipt of your letter No. 35599 of the 12th

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instant, forwarding a copy of a despatch from the

Governor of Hongkong enclosing regulations issued by

him concerning the use of ports in Hongkong by foreign

men-of-war, together with copies of correspondence bet-

ween the Governor and the French and German Consuls in

the Colony on the subject.

Sir Edward Grey is not aware of the reasons which

prompted the instructions on which the Governor appears

to have acted, but he is disposed to share His Excel-

lency's opinion that the rule may give rise to practi-

cal inconvenience. It is also to be feared that it

may lead to diplomatic representations from other Gov-

ernments and to the adoption at foreign ports of re-

taliatory

isc -June

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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