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& trade of stonghong, but of all British subjects at the a various ports of China a and Japan, and of all-
British Trade in the
Z
China Seas.
11.
As regards the
Straits Settlements, moreover, I think it as decidedly open to question whether its
· proportion relatively to that of stonghong is not placed too low, when there is taken into account (1) the Revenues
Ju.
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Revenues of the two Colonies, (2) the proportion of them already contributed by each to - defensive purposes, and (3) the fact that the
importanci
of maintaining communication with Naval Head Quarters render the cable scarcely, if
at all, less
necessary
to the
Straits Government than to that of stonghong,
I have the honour to be, My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Cordient
Humble Servant,
quilliandersons
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