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Ienclose copies of
received
from Mr
a
report
Hance which
supports this assumption, of my reply to Mr Hance, and of notes
that I exchanged with the
explanned
Hennessy Courtesy.
tery
ment
Tsung-li
The
pccasion
The Yamên
that its note to Sir John
was
a
It is
- mere message of
none the less
to me that writing of State
A
cedented
Mṛ Hance it will be
as a
Qu
mys-
Depart-
any proceeding
so unpre-
should have
occurred.
to it.
seen conceived
himself bound
out
of loyalty to me,
not
not to forward the letter handed to
huim until he had referred to
It eventually found it's trong trong
of a
I believe
by
way
the hand
subordinate official deputed.
ostensibly for some other
purpose.
I wrote nothing to Sir John Hennessy
regarding it.
I have to
(Signed) Thomas Francis Wade:
The Earl Granville H. G.
te
I do not appear to have replied.
officially
to my Hance-
(44) J. Wade