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WHITEHALL.
21st July 1897
In reply to your letter of the 7th instant, asking that arrangements may be made for the removal to England of a female European prisoner named Edith May Hallowell Carew, who is now in the Victoria Gaol at Hong Kong, I am directed by the Secretary of State to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Chamberlain, that he sees no objection to the prisoner's removal to an English Prison, but that it will be necessary that he should be informed at what English Port she will be landed, and be given as long notice as possible of the date of her arrival, and also that he should...
Under Secretary
of State
Colonial Office.