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apology for its invasion and as guarantee that no further occasion of complaint shall occur again. I have …
Sd C. Mabaster.
Consul.
Governor General to A. B. M. Consul.
Violation of British territory at Stanley Bay.
Copy of Translation.
Sir,
Canton 8th July, 1890
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of yesterday's date requesting on behalf of the Hongkong Government explanations in regard to a very serious invasion of British Territory on the part of a Customs Cruizer, and expressing regret that I did not apparently appreciate the gravity of the question.
You go on to remark that the Hongkong Government will be scarcely pleased at receiving a curt despatch expressing no regret for