State
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Foreign Office
January 29, 1886
Sir,
Ear 1196
Q 1557
of
I am
With reference to your letters of the 23rd and 28th instant, I am directed by The Marquis of Salisbury to request that you will state to Secretary Colonel Stanley that Mr O'Conor, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, was instructed by telegraph to report whether he had received any explanations from the Chinese Government in regard to the arrest in Hongkong of a Chinaman at his house in
The Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office