CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 572

Sir,

F.C. 45033 Hong Kong

C. D

R. 26 SEP.

7

Downing Street,

26

September, 1916.

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H UNDER SECRETARY OF SLATE-

FOREIGN OFFICE.

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I am directed by ur, Secretary

Bonir Law to acknowledge the receipt

of your letter, No.196411/16.F, of the

20th September, transitting & despatch

from His Majesty's Minister at Peking,

with regard to the jurisdiction over certan,

islands in the neighbourhood of Hução.

MINUTE.

Mr. Finn-2579,

Mr.

1. Robinson 279

Collins 25

Mr.

Mr. Grindle.

Mr. Imbert.

Mr. Read.

Sir G. Fiddes.

Mr. Steel-Maitland.

Mr. Bonar Law.

Copy Gov. 28 Sepall

by corres.GOV.L,F,

2.

to my thutna suggestion

made by the Governor of liong Kong in

his Confidential despatch of the 16th

March, to which Mr. Bonur Law gave his

support, referred to a scheme for the

joint policing of the islanda in question,

panding the settlement of the long-rexed

question of the respective rights of the

Portu,usos und Chinese Governments with

raguri to the islands,

рти

but it ad sumy..

Sir John Jordan's despatch that

I ter 16 obu

Cp99-2- bimb the su,estion of the dev-mor-

afmay long has been lost sight of

in