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been in Committee
communication with the Secretary
State for Foreign Affairs
in order to provide for Japan.
It remains therefore to determine certain points:
what amount of Troops will be required for the protection of
British interests in China and Japan.
The Marquis ...
7
and I have the honour to
enclose copies of
the correspondence relating to the Colony of Hong Kong.
Starington(?) desired to be informed whether M. Cardwell
and ...
considered it would be practicable
on the subject.
Mr. Cardwell will
not serve that, to withdraw
the European Regiment altogether from that station, substituting
in the opinion of
so far as
the Treaty Ports in China are concerned,
Lord Clarendon
for it
a Battalion of Native Infantry;
or whether in the event
of the total withdrawal
one Battalion of Infantry
and half a Battery of Artillery will suffice
for the protection of British interests.
M. Cardwell
European Troops (saving
being deemed unadvisable
...
think it sufficient that