CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 166

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in any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No,

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28684/11.

26864

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

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Sir:-

London.

FOREIGN OFFICE

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24314

July 2

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164

1911.

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit

to you herewith a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's

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Minister at Peking drawing attention to an agreement

for co-operation in certain police matters which has

been negotiated by His Excellency the Governor of Hong

Kong with a representative of the Viceroy at Canton.

Sir J. Jordan points out that the negotiations were

carried on by the Colonial Government independently of

His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton to whom no

previous communication appears to have been addressed

upon the subject.

The correspondence of the year 1885 referred to by

Sir J. Jordan shows that the Secretary of State for

Foreign Affairs in that year approved the terms of a

despatch addressed by Mr. O'Conor, at that time Her

Majesty's Minister at Peking, to Sir G. Bowen in which

the former reaffirmed the instructions issued in 1869,

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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