CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign Office,
December 20. 1886.
Sir,
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I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before M. Secretary a decypher of a telegram from Her Majesty's Minister at Peking in reply to a telegraphic instruction to remonstrate against the violation of Hongkong Territory referred to in your letter of the 9 Dec. 16. 1886 Telegram.
J Walsham Stanhope
I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
[Signature illegible]
Under Secretary of State Colonial Office.