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Mr Wade to General Whitfeild
264 of Commons. Admiral Agent extricate itself. best it may from any difficulty this question may lead to, I have thought it as well to bat Mr Hughes see what terms he can make with the Provincial Government.
I beg benclove copies of my letter to General Whitfeild now acting as Governor of Hong Kong, and of my instructions. 14 Mer Rughes... 23rd. Shave this morning received a note from W. Hughes to the effect that the Preventive Service is going to work at once. I enclose copy of a Despatch I have written.
(sk) Shaveta Ama hein. Thomas Francis Wade.
The Earl Granville K.G.
Coby Confidential time yo fovunmen ent Peking 21th June 1871.
Having learned that the Chinese are organizing a preventive Service for the protection of its Revenue against the evasion of duty on goods, especially opium carried coastwise in Junks from the Colony of Hong Kong and apprehending that the operation of such a service, which of course...