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Sir,
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Foreign Office, PEG 7 M 98
May
2
1898.
eding Consul Peat
11o 3 Commercial
March 25.18978
I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of a
deepatch which
has been neceived
Consul
from Merchajesty's Acting Coment. at Reunion reporting that the prohibition
now existing against
the introduction of all supplies from
plague infected Indian ports has been extended to Hong-Kong.
I am,
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
F. H. Vilies.