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British Officer being present
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reply
I have the honour to state that it is
that His Excellency the Viceroy has requested
me to inform His Excellency the Governor
that the foregoing statement
by the Commandant of Kowloon proceeds
from ignorance on the part of
This office of Treaty provisions, and is altogether unauthorized. His Excellency further requests
that the 13 criminals referred to may be handed
over to the Chinese office at Le Ping for conveyance
to Canton, and in the usual terms the promise to abstain
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from the use of torture.
I have, &c.
(Signed) A. R. Newlett
Jonſul.