CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 330

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REGO 9 APR 14

FOREIGN OFFICE,

April 7th,1914.

326

Your Excellency:-

With reference to the note which Your Ex-

cellency was good enough to address to me on the 13th

ultimo relative to the expenditure incurred for the

treatment in Italian hospitals of three Chinese, I have

the honour to observe that no proof is adduced in Your

Excellency's note that these persons are in fact British

subjects, born or residing in Hong Kong.

Moreover, His Majesty's Government make no

claim for the repayment of hospital expenses incurred

on behalf of foreigners in this country, and have con-

sistently declined, on this ground, to accept responsi-

bility for hospital expenses incurred on behalf of

British subjects in foreign countries.

s Excellency

I regret therefore that the Secretary of

State for the Colonies is unable to call upon the

Government of Hong Kong to meet the hospital expendi-

ture incurred on behalf of the three persons mentioned

in Your Excellency's note, nor would he feel justified

The Marquis Imperiali,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

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