CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 447

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MINUTES.

MINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No.

F 3661/3510/10.

and address,

not to any person by name,

but to-

**The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

October 1t1921

50801

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13 CCT

Sir:-

With reference to your letters Nos.49104/1921 and

47968/1921 of the 26th ultimo and 4th instant, I am directed

by the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston to transmit to you, herewith, for the information of Mr.Becretary Churchill,

copies of the latest reports received from His Majesty's

Minister at Peking and His Majesty's Consul-General at

Canton on the position at Macao. It will be seen that every

effort is being made to tranquilise the situation and

arrange a modus vivendi.

2. As regards the nature of the instructions to be

telegraphed to the Governor of Hongkong I am to request that

in view of the difficulty of gauging the situation accurately

and promptly here he should be instructed to keep in close

touch with His Majesty's Minister at Peking and to be guided

in

B.ny crisis by his advice.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

1.Willed

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.