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in most frequent communication
with
our
Chinese neighbors, that Mr. Consul Robertson had been
instructed to
carry out the wish of Her Majesty's Government for free inter-communication with the Authorities at Kowloon, and I directed him to report fully on the position of our relations with the latter place.
5. I enclose Mr. Smith's Report on the subject. It details in a frankly exhaustive manner, meant entirely for my own special information, the explanation given by Pang Ink, Commandant of Kowloon, as to the general cessation
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of personal intercourse between himself and the Registrar General. His reasons for such altered relations may be summed up as arising from complaints made by Mr. Consul Robertson to the Vice Roy of Canton regarding the frequency of Mr. Smith's visits to Wong tong, and his transaction there of business which should have passed through the British Consulate. He also stated that he had seen Mr. Mayers (the Vice Consul at Canton), who had, so to speak, "directed him to discontinue his visits to Mr. Smith, and the Vice Roy had desired that, the complaint having been made by the