CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896

FOREIGN OFFICE,

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[REGS 9 MAR 96

March 7th, 1896.

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Sir:-

I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant in regard to a renewal of bubonic epidemic at Hongkong, and I am to inquire whether Mr Secretary Chamberlain would wish the information therein contained to be communicated to the Austrian, German, and Russian Governments, which, in 1894, asked to be informed of the progress of the disease.

I am,

The Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office.

Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
Scotelluzon

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