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remote, and that it will be yet further removed if the Chinese Officials are allowed to see that we are alert.
To this end I would suggest that a competent officer of the Hong Kong Garrison be at once directed by Your Excellency to proceed to Amoy to examine the position of the foreign Settlement and report what sort of force it would be expedient to detach for its protection.
My own impression, derived from what I have seen more than once at Canton, is that a subdivision, on a Company of Infantry will be amply sufficient, at the most.
I should be glad that the officer sent should pay his respects to the Chinese Authorities. Mr Pedder would explain who he was, and present him, and would inform, without menace, that he had been sent by Your Excellency to inform himself of the safety of Her Majesty's Subjects residing at Amoy. I believe that his visit would considerably diminish the chances of such a movement as is thought possible.
I have … (Signed) Thomas Francis Wade
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(Signed) W. C. G' Shaughnessy, Asst Military Secretary.
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remote, and that it will be yet further removed if the Chinese Officials are allowed to see that we are alert.
To this end I would suggest that a competent officer of the Hong Kong Garrison be at once directed by Your Excellency to proceed to Amoy to examine the position of the foreign Settlement and report what sort of force it would be expedient to detach for its protection.
My own impression, derived from what I have seen more than once at Canton, is that a subdivision, on a Company of Infantry will be amply sufficient, at the most.
I should be glad that the officer sent should pay his respects to the Chinese Authorities. Mr Pedder would explain who he was, and present him, and would inform, without menace, that he had been sent by Your Excellency to inform himself of the safety of Her Majesty's Subjects residing at Amoy. I believe that his visit would considerably diminish the chances of such a movement as is thought possible.
I have ... (Signed) Thomas Francis Wade
True Copy
(Signed) W. C. G' Shaughnessy, Asst Military Secretary.