CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12] — Page 607

Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to.........

The Secretary,

War Office,

and the following number quoted.

&

083/4559

London, S. W.,

War Office,

(M.0.3.)

Sir,

REC

C. O.

599 12609

[Rec. 30 PM 10

London, S.W.

29th April, 1910.

I am commanded by the Army Council to

you

acknowledge the receipt of your letter 9720/1910 of the

9th instant, enclosing for their consideration a copy

of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong with

regard to visits paid by officers of the Army to

Chinese territory in the neighbourhood of the Colony.

In reply I am to say that it is regretted that

Sir F. Lugard was not informed of the intention to

employ a surveying party in the country between British

Kowloon and the East River and to include in that party

5 Indian Surveyors. The General Officer Commanding,

North China, to whose command the party belonged, has

instructions to communicate with and obtain the sanction

of His Majesty's Minister at Peking before undertaking

any reconnaissance in China, and it is presumed, as

passports were issued to the party through the Legation,

that Sir J. Jordan's approval was obtained and that he

saw no objection to surveys being carried on in the

vicinity of the Colony of Hong Kong.

I

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.