CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 484

Io any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No.

and address,

but to

117399/W/17.

not to any person by name,

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.I.

Lo

447235

Sir.

FOREIGN OFFICE

474

August C22 1919.

48876

RECO

IP. 23 UG 19

With reference to the Note from this Department

to the French Ambassador of the 12th instant, a copy

of which was forwarded to the Colonial Office on

the 13th instant, and to previous correspondence

relative to the treatment of Dr. A.Gaston on his

Journey from China to France, I am directed by

Earl Curzon of Kedleston to transmit to you,

herewith, a further Note which has been received

from the French Chargé d'Affaires on this subject.

2. I am to ask that further investigations

may be made into the case of Dr. Gaston, as request- ed in the last paragraph of Monsieur de Fleuriau's

Note.

3. A similar letter has been addressed to the

Admiralty.

I am

The Under Secretary of State

+ Sir,

Your most obedient

humble Servant,

Gerald Spicer

Colonial Office.