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after a preliminary meeting Major General Edwards left for
only returning
Australia
at the beginning of the -
winter, and circumstances
prevented any further meetings after that date.
9.
I have myself
endeavoured to continue
the sittings of the Committee, but owing to the absence of General Edwards in Shanghai and to his impending departure it has not been
convenient
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convenient for him to assist. I will not fail, however, to bring the subject to the - notice of Major General Barker, who is expected to
arrive here in
a
few days,
may
so that the Committee
again
no
meet should he see
objection to such a _
course.
10.
I understand that
the project which both Sir G. William Des Vaux and General Edwards viewed
with