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FOREIGN OPRICE20 APR 10,

April 18th. 1910.

b. 127. 12573/10)

Sir:-

I transmit to you herewith a copy of a lettor

which I have received from the Colonisl Office request-

ing that standing instructions should be given to His

Majesty's Consul-General at Canton to communicate at

once with the Governor of Hongkong in case anything oc-

curo in his district which is likely to affect the

Colony.

From the correspondence which «ccompanies the Co-

lonial Office letter you will observe thut the question

has arisen in consequence of certain recent disturb-

ances at Canton not having been notified to Hongkong

so promptly as the

Governor thought desirable.

I presume that Buch communications are already

made by His Majesty's Consular Officer at Canton to the

Governor at Hongkong as a matter of course, and while

I have no reuson to suppose that on the present occa-

G. Max Miller, Esq., M.V.O.,

&c.,

ac.,

&c.

sion