mediate and Confidential
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Sir
1490 sex.
Foreign Office
Januar
12 1900
365
I laid before the Marquess
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of Salisbury your letter of this ?
mus taul
tro
tting
Ite paraphrase
of a telegram from the Governor
of Hong Kong
refoorted
with regard to the ? intention of the French
Government to place two gumboits
on
the West River
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tt.
In reply to the enquiry
contained in
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second paragriphe
of yo
letter
Qui
directed by
our
His Lordships to state that it
Secretary of State
does
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