41F.
My
- fore going
promptness in sending the
was because Sir George
Bowen had shown me
a
letter
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events in their immediate neigh
"bourhood',
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my
wtter
ances both
from
high officint
England
in which it was said that we
to be made prisoners,
Avele!
going to be
and I saw from
reference to a
à
official letter
despatch from
Sir George. Born on the
defence that fearo
Lord Derby
-garding
termo of
suljeer of our
were expressed by
at a Cabinet Council re-
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ability to enforce the
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neutrality in
the
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between France and China and in
Chinese population sobom
presence of
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of
any
be readily stirred by the course
of
official and private I expressed the
greatest confidence an
to make a
being able
right good fight of it;
if necessary, no matter what the oddo
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cadenes against.
an
t
my arrangements show how determin- ed I was to hold out to the last
on the hills above us, if driven from
our basheve.
It will be peen that this determination to reiterated to
Sir George Bown in the appended copy of
letter I have at hand.
Although Six George Bowe
saw the confidence that the garrison