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be glad to accept certain items of the programme, provided that I could assure him that in the event of his landing at Hongkong the vessel by which
he was to travel the M. M.
s.s. Ernest Simons" would not
be detained for quarantine at Singapore or Colombo
owing. to the prevalence of bubonia plaque in this Colony. I at
telegraphed to the Govern or at Singapore, and was in- formed by telegram on the
once
28th
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28th ultime that although the vessel was liable to be quarantin_
of
ed at that port in the event the Grand Secretary and his suite landing at Hongkong. pratique would be at once: granted if it was the passengers
found that:
on board were
free from disease.
5.
It was then too late
to inform the Grand Secretary
as the s.s. "Ernest Simons had
left Shanghai, but on the strength of the Consul-General's telegram
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