:
(Copy)
19.
Euclosure D.
C. O. 4132
Government Boivie,
BAN DA
118
étongkong, 14 February, 1886.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge
receipt of your two telegrams of 30th January, and to state that I gave directions, on the receipt of the lost, warked confidential, to abandon the
prosecution of the petty office and
the
belonging to the. Chinese Gruboat, who had bun charged with assault, and who appear to have been only carrying out orden issued to them by their superior officers. In moving the
4. J. Or Conor, Engut,
Her Britanic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires,
Peking
Court
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