Enclosure H
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· Acting Colonial Secretary to the Rev. R. Lechler :
(Copy)
NABIJ,
Sin
19758
Colonial Secretary's Office
Hongkong, 20th September, 1885.
With reference to your letter of the 10th instant to the Colonial Surgeon, I am directed by His Excellency, the Governor to enquire what evidence there is of Marie Gansee's being a German Subject, the German Consul declining to recognise any one without sufficient proof.
I have the honour to be,
(Signed) Frederick Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary
The Reverend R. Lechler.