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INTELLIGENCE DIVISION, 18, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, S.W,
21st April, 1899
The Director of Military Intelligence presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,
and has the honour to submit the following observations on the present situation at Hong Kong:
From the telegrams of the Governor to the Colonial Office, of the 15th and 16th instant it would appear highly probable that the local Chinese authorities have instigated, or at least connived at, the opposition to our assumption of authority over the leased territory. If this should prove to be the case, Her Majesty's Government will no doubt desire to exact reparation from the Chinese Government of a nature which will bring home to the latter, that such incidents cannot occur with impunity. The mere infliction of personal punishment on the subordinates concerned will hardly affect this in a country constituted so peculiarly, as China. Sir John Ardagh would therefore suggest for Mr. Chamberlain's consideration that one or...