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14. Hong Kong Sir Rederi Royers Bart - REMS
Copy
16 May 1871
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1. I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of
Your Confidential despatch of the 22nd Sept
Earl of Granville
Chargé d'affaires
18th January best time from W. Wavell
Hill. Acting Naval Officer at
to the Naval Office.
Peking, and addressed
2. He stated despatch Mr. Wavell requests that the Chinese Government be permitted to
therein
establish on British territory in Hong Kong a Chinese
House of their own.
Luk
general purpose in flying
for transmission of teaching and all Chinese vessels visiting that Port, and of duties which it appears being duties on their cargoes
Examining
which
nature and might at any time be caused to the specimen. Most are of a wholly varying nature and prohibiting, without being illegal, according probably
Wavell, who I think that
3.
of British territory
that as
They
feared
or in any part of the British Empire
a parallel can be found to such an extraordinary proposal by a British diplomatic Agent,
as
has
how submitted by Mr. Wavell, who is to purchase extension of
the Import Trade "proposes the introduction Imperium in Imperio into a British Colony
of a
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The Chinese
there
A
power Independent Men