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the Colonial Office.
the e
Arms
& munitions
French Government to exercise
on the subject of
the
right of
search on
The High.
Sen.
requested
export of q was for. Hongkong
Hong Kong to China.
and that Sir I Pannefote
also to inclose
That our opinion was
wxo
as
a letter from
that department in which
the
engring
was made whether
Austration Coal in British
Ships consigned
to other than
Chinese merchants would be
jeopardized
voyage to
a Chinese Treaty Port, in View
of
the recent decision of
the
reuch
that
to the reply to be made to
enquiry.
In obedience to
Your Lordships
Commands we have the honour
to ke port
That in 1859 and again in
1870
France declared Coal
not to be contraband ophter England
in 1870 considered
that