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2.
Japan
leave,
I had proceeded to
two months' vacation
on medical certificate, and by permission of your predecessor. In another despatch by this mail you s
I shall transmit my report or
in
the present state of affairs Japan and China, especially affecting British interests.
3.
All
Ad
o4l is perfectly quiet
at Hongkong. Trade is reviving. after the depression consequent on the resent Franco-Chinese hostilities, and on the threatened war with
Russia
21:340 of
August, 1885.
Kussia.
4.
The Cholera has entirely
disappeared from among
the
Garrison and the Europeans generally
though there have been a few lately among
the Chinese. The
cases
disease has been of a "sporadie _
1
rather than of an epidemie "character. Indeed there has been much
difference of opinion as to its real nature, the Military Doctors calling it "Cholera, and the Civil Doctors-
calling it Choleraie diarrhea. But as it has proved fatal
tal in.
many
Cases
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