CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 43

No. 6085/10.

Enclosure to 2 in Sir S.W. de Sausmorez's

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clespatch No 12 of 25th March 1911.

CO Government House.

1200Jongkong, 13th March 191145)

Rece

R 13 APR 1

sir,

HO APR 1911

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your

letter No.1 and 3 of the 19th January and 17th February

respectively and to forward to Your Honour in reply a

copy of a despatch (with its enclosures) which I addressed

to the Secretary of State for the colonies on the 25th

ultimo.

2. I understand that you will yourself be in

England during the summer, and I hope that advantage may

be taken of your presence and that of Mr. Rees Davies

for a discussion with the Legal Advisers of the Foreign

Office and Colonial Office to arrive at a satisfactory

solution of this matter. I sincerely hope for my own

part that that solution while disposing of the legal

difficulties upon which I am not competent to express

any opinion of value, may secure the mutual co-operation

between the British Commercial interests of Hongkong and

Shanghai which as you are aware I have at heart, and that

there may eventuate out of the difficulties which have

arisen in regard to the registration of companies a solid

gain in the consolidation of British interests in the

Far East with their focus in this British Colony.

I have the honour to be,

sir,

Your Honour's most obedient

servant,

(sd.) F.D. Lugard.

Governor &c.

May

His Honour

Sir H. de SausmereZ.

Shanghai.