CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 27

In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No.

F4331/73/10.

and address

not to any person by name,

but to-

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, 8.W.1.

C.O.

40599

7 SEP 23

3

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

5th September, 1925.

70

34822

Sir,

I am directed by Mr.Secretary Chamberlain to

acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.34822/25 of

the 1st instant regarding the removal of the office of

the Chinese Telegraph Administration in Hongkong, and

to inform you that he concurs in the suggestion that

the Governor of Hongkong should be invited to discuss

the whole question on his return to this country

towards the end of the year.

2.

Meanwhile, it is presumed that instructions have

been or will be sent to Sir R.E.Stubbs to refrain from

taking any steps in the matter pending the proposed

discussion.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

sir.

Your obedient Bervant,

Laurenes

Laurence Colleen

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