CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 217

the concurrence of the Colonial Office,

to regard your candidature for the ap-

pointment in question as undesirable.

Yours truly,

1.

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Foreign Office.

September 15th, 1914.

My dear Butler,

1 have consulted the competent

authorities here in regard to your letter

of the 11th instant on the subject of Sir

F. Piggott. They are of opinion that in

all the circumstances it would be better to

reply to his latest effusion that the

decision in the matter of the appointment

of a Legal Adviser to the Chinese Govern-

ment was fully explained to him in the

letter from the Foreign Office of September

19th, 1912 in the terms of which the

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