CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 58

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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

RECE [August 16 SEP 10,

SECTION 1.

Sir,

Foreign Office to India Office.

Foreign Office, August 9, 1910. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ultimo, enclosing a telegram from the Government of India, with reference to the visit of a Chinese official to the Hkamti-Löng country, and proposing the dispatch thither in November or December next of a civil officer with an escort of military police to assert British supremacy in a formal manner.

Sir E. Grey concurs in the reply which Viscount Morley proposes to return to the Government of India.

I am, &c.

F. A. CAMPBELL.

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