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not be stopped. Needless is it for
Enclosure 3
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary to the
Acting Japanese Consul:-
whether the sale of those
"these pictures could
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are no
to add, that of these troops in Tonquin:-
I have,
S. Machida Acting Consul for Japan.
Sir,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong, 22nd January 1884
I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th Ultimo complaining of some rude Chinese drawings which are being hawked about the streets of this city; and in which some Japanese troops are represented as acting jointly with French troops against the Black Flags, in Tonquin: These drawings appear to be merely comic caricatures to which it
A. Machida Esq
Acting Japanese Consul...
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