With reference to your letters of the 16th, 18th, 26th, and 26th instant, I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you a copy of a telegram which he addressed to Her Majesty's Chargé d'affaires at Peking yesterday on the subject of the disturbances in the territory recently taken over from China in the neighbourhood of Hongkong.
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
Your most obedient, humble servant, Francis Bertie
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