CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 263

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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No.

27507/11.

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The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London,

Sir:-

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On the receipt of your letter 11966/1911 of May

11th last, a telegram was, as you are aware,

addressed

to His Majesty's Minister at Peking asking for his

views on the Governor of Hongkong's proposal to intro-

duce legislation providing for the control of the

Telegraphs within the Colony of Hongkong by the

Colonial Government to the exclusion of the present

Chinese Government administration. A copy of Sir J.

Jordan's telegraphic reply was communicated to you in

the letter from this Office of the 16th June last.

I am now directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to

enclose, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Harcourt, for

such observations as he may have to offer, a copy of &

despatch from Sir J. Jordan, in which the question is

gone into at length and the conclusion arrived at that

the course proposed by Sir F. Lugard is open to grave

objection.

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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