Sir
Enclosure
Hangkong Generat Chamber of Commerce,
affanghong, and Huly
Hongkong.
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1884.
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I have the honour to address Your Excellency by desire of the bouquittée of this Chamber with reference to the changes that may reasonably be expected to take place in foreign intercourse with Chira consequent upon events that have recently ! transpired in Annam and Fouquir
The military French have achieved and their pillion by the Chineze
military successes which the
signed at Sientsin on the 11th of May last are events of seprevce importance both in a political and commercial sense to South Chica, and also touch very wearly the mercantile interests of this Colony.
The Convention provides for trading facilities between the bountry now to be protected by France and the frontier provinces of Kwanting, Kwangst and thuman and the terms of the convention generally belief that the time has now come when foreign Towers should require a revision of the Conditions of their intercourse with Cheira and clain
indicate the
His Excellency
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Sir Harry I. Parkes, K. C. B. G. b. M.G.
Britania)
Leer, Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
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