CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 369

In any further communication

on the subject, please quote

No. 13348/14.

and addresa—

The Under-Secretary of Stale.

Foreign Office,

London.

C. C.

14531

REC?

REGE 21 APR 14

365

FOREIGN OFFICE

April

20

1914.

I

Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit

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

Consul General at Shanghai relative to the estate of George

Ford, a British subject, who died in Japan in 1888, together]

with copies of minutes on the case by the Legal Advisers to

this department.

Sir E. Grey would be glad to be furnished with such

observations with regard to the law and practice of the

Colony of Hongkong in regard to "bona vacantia" as Mr.

Secretary Harcourt may be good enough to offer.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Ralph Paget