CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 49

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OREIGN

OFFICE

No.15356/10.

Sir:-

40/8984/09

FOREIGN OFFICE.

May 10, 1910,

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With reference to your letter No.11763 of the

3rd instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey

to state for the information of the Earl of Crewe

that he concurs in the proposed reply to Sir F. Pig-

gott with regard to the question of altering the con-

stitution of the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong.

With regard, however, to Sir F. Piggott's

statement that "Sir E. Grey expressed an opinion,

the

purport of which was that the advice I had given was

actuated by my evident hostility to the scheme," I

am to point out that this is not a correct interpre-

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tation of the views expressed in the letter from

this office of the 11th of March, 1909.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Wrangler