CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 170

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MINUTES.

MINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. K 8427/834/210

And address,

but to-

not to any person by name.

"The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office,

London, B.W.1.

sir:-

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

/JUN 16th) June 1924.

With reference to your letter No.25716/24

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of the 4th instant regarding the repatriation expenses

of former employees of the Chinese Maritime Customs,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Ramsay MacDonald to

express his regret that he is unable either to act

in the sense auggested in the Govenor of Hongkong's

despatch or to accept the liability of this department

for such expenses. I am to suggest that, in future,

cases of this nature might be most effectively dealt

with by means of direct correspondence between His

Excellency the Governor of Hongkong and His Majesty's

Kinister at Peking who would no doubt bring such pressure

to bear on the question as is possible.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

sir,

Your obedient Servant,