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Hongkong
MINUTE PAPER.
Si. 7. Roger 500 69
This is unfortunately.
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The 7.O. dispatches of 4th August would reach here under 6 weeks, say about 18 Sept.
The 21 Sept
The Telegram which the 7.O. had just received could not I believe have been transmitted from Pekin at a later date than about the 28 August.
In R.A. would therefore have had 3 weeks for his negotiation with the Chinese Consul on the subject of the Hougkong unfettered by the F.O. conditions in 8819.
Copies to Si Ward & whom all the previous correspondence has been sent
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