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merate &
udential.
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Foreign Office 633
17 October 1899.
66 COLONIAL OFFICE
I laid before the Marquess of Salisbury your letter of the 9th instant 268152.
In relation to the retrocession to China of Sham Chen, and inviting attention to a communication addressed to your Department by the War Office on the subject.
His Lordship concurs in the view.
The Under Secretary of State Colonial Office.
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