of Houghong, wh: has been
mindly forwarded to me.
the Goot of that Colony in reply to my suggestion that IW?
by
Mitchell ohd furnish the home
Soot with his opinions
on this
subjech. Sir Arthur Rennedy
informes
Me
that a copy of
this report has already been
vent of the Sect of State for the
a service wh: it is 80
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important
to the whole civilized world ohd
not even
for
a short time be
mismanaged. He feels confident that the change contemplated
by the convention concluded. with the US. will give great
dissatisfaction to the foreign community, that the japanese
ond not, at any rate for a long
time to come, have
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control
Colonies. M? Mitchell is
DOL
any
13907
over our
mails
& that it wd
to
apee
to similar
clearly of opinion that the
Japanese goot cannot yet be
sufficiently well versed in portal
matters to carry
carry on successfully
be unsafe
arrangements to those proposed until it is proved that those
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