CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 194

dis 7. dugard's proposal.

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I don't like it. he theould not? quie a free Tempell site in the S.S. But as 20. are so Enamourad of our alless we may sacrifice the Boo a gear.

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In any further communication

ou this subject, please quote

No. 14595/12.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

Sir: -

CO 11676

RECA

Rr 17 APque OFFICE

April

192

1912.

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I am instructed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to

Yo.

acknowledge the receipt of your letter, (9017/1912) of the

4th. instant transmitting a despatch from the Government

of Hongkong in which it is proposed to make what is

practically a free grant of land to the Japanese Community

in that Colony for the purpose of the erection of a

Buddhist Temple, and suggesting that Sir F. Lugard should

be informed in reply that Mr. Harcourt is not prepared

to agree to the free grant of the land but that he is

willing to allow the land to be leased at a rent of Three

hundred dollars a year.

In reply I am to state that, in view of our close

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relations with Japan, the free gift of a site for a

Japanese Buddhist temple would, in Sir E. Grey's opinion,

be a gracious and generous act, especially as Sir F.Lugard

explains

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.