No.1521
Rev. H. Bender,
Basel; Mission.
Sir,
COPY
474
C. O.
935
O JAW Y
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong, 11th September, 1899.
I am directed by the Honourable the Colonial Secretary to ask you to kindly inform me at your early convenience what truth there is in the incident referred to in the leading article of today's "Daily Press", which is based upon an article in a recent number of the Ostasiatische Lloyd. I attach a copy of the leading article, which I am to request you to kindly return.
I have &c.
(Signed) R. F. Johnston.
per Assistant Colonial Secretary.
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