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· Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs approve the astion which I resently took in issuing a proclamation
,
forbidding the export of
export of arms as
from Foongkong to the insurgent
district of Weichau in China,
revoking that provamation
and in revoking
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the suppression of the insurrection.
In the Foreign Office
th
letter of May 13th ultimo (of which : ( a copy was forwarded with the
despatch now under acknowledgment), Lord Granville adde approval of "Sir G. Bowen's intention to apply
"for
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for further instructions in the event of an outbreak of hostilities. "between China and a Foreign -
"Yower."
3.
It was yesterday-
announced here by telegram
that hostilities betwren France
and China are 124
supposed to be so imminent that the English
Naval Officers
now in the
Chinese service have been
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ordered by the oAdmiralty to-
give their
resignations. If this
announcement be true, it is
assuredly
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