Excellency's letter requires immediate attention, I forward herewith a separate hot reply to it.
I have merely to add, with reference to the last paragraph of my letter of the 11th Instant, that I have requested Sir John Michel to take care that after my departure, no grounds be given for any future Complaint from Your Excellency on this subject.
I have etc. (Signed) I. Hope Grant, Lieutenant General and Commander of the Forces in China.
(Indorsed)
Blue lines A.B.C comprise the area originally applied for for Civil and Military purposes.
Pink: Land occupied by Military on the assumption of the administration of the Peninsula by H.E. Sir H. Robinson.
Green: Land recently appropriated without permission.
Colonial Secretary.
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