Confidential.
FO
Hong Kong
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3202
The Sec: to the Admiralty
Mr.
Mr. Meade.
MINUTE. 28
Mr. Holland.
Mr. Herbert.
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Mr. Hugessen. Lord Kimberley.
Draft to F. O
3202. 23 March.
Indexed
To
30 March I
has caused a despatch to be informed that are.
A
3 April 1872
and directed by the Earl of Kimberley to transmit to you for the consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty a copy of a confidential despatch received at the Foreign Office from H. M's. Minister at Peking representing the injury that might be inflicted on the Colony of Hongkong in the event of war between Russia and this country. Lord Kimberley entirely dissents from Mr. Wade's opinion that it would be advisable to give up Hongkong to China, but he wishes to call their
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dangue which might arise
to the Colony or cause of
importance of bringing work
a native flower if there
were between them
some naval
means of repelling the attack
of
a French or Russian vessel in
the China Seas.
...
twenty and
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attention to the
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