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on
British Howloon, I have the honour to forward copies of further correspondence the subject from which Your Lordship will observe that the arrested men are, on my demand, about to be given up by the Viceroy of the Two-Kuang to be
returned to British
jurisdiction.
Though the correspondence in question, telegraphic and otherwise, for the most part
sufficiently
sufficiently explains itself, it;&
be convenient to Your
may
Lordship that I should
a short summary
give here
of
occurrences since the
date of my despatch above referred to.
3.
Having communicated with Sir John Walsham, as
before reported, I felt that " = pending the commencement of regotiations at Peking, this matter would probably
become, as
on a
former
occasion