the
day after my return to Canton,
His Excellency assured me
that
he had called upon all the officers
in
charge of
Custom Stations
to inform him whether
any
such seizure had been made by the bruisers attached to them and these Reports
coming in, but as far
as were get all he
had received denied any knowledge of the matter; and that
dispatching
he was making official enquiries
through his staff to make personal enquiries
with great anxiety to have a full enquiry
into the case.
I have to
(Signed) B. Robertson
True Copy
Checked by ... in the Colonial Secretary's office
not only
at
the Revenue Stations
but at the Salt and Likin
branches, and expressed his
anxiety
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