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The Under Secretary Foreign Office MINUTE.
2. Fiddian Oll SiW. Hamilton. Mr. Autrobus. H. Cox. Lucas. Graham. Wingfield. Earl of Selborne. Mr. Chamberlain.
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I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, forwarding a copy of memorandum of the Military Intelligence Department Colonel Wale them for the retention of Chinese jurisdiction in the newly acquired territory at Hong Kong.
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