Your Excellency's despatch having been marked Confidential I shall of course treat it as such.
Ais Excellency,
I have re...
St Claude M. Macdonald.
Le William Robinson, K.C.M.G.
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Mr. Fairfield,
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
Sir R. Meade.
Earl of Selborne,
Mr. Chamberlain.
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Chamberlain to request you to lay before the Marquis of Salisbury an expression of his views on the enclosed
Confidential despatch from the Governor of Hongkong
as to the expediency of permitting political criminals to be extradited to China.
In Chamberlain's opinion, the proposal which is made in these papers is open to grave objections, and cannot be...