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9155
Ricketts
Confidential
C. Mardonald
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Sir,
RINTED
* USE
EASTERN
No.
66
COLONIAL
OFFIC
Foreign Office,
316
19153
RECI
August 23, 1899.
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 despaten.
to be
as marked in the margin, respecting the
assistance given to the Chinese Custome
the Hongkong Government.
Authontie.
by
I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
The Under-Secretary of State,
50
Colonial Office.
humble Servant,
Francis Bertie