No.1575.
Sir,
RECD
C. O.
935
Reef C JAN F
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong, 19th September, 1899.
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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 the Daily Press of the 11th instant, 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.
PER END
MR. ZAHN,
c/o. REVEREND B. F. GOTTSCHALK,
RHENISH MISSION.
I have &c.
(Signed.) R. F. Johnston,
Assistant Colonial Secretary.