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FOREIGN OFFICE,
10 MAN 79
6490
Fronside
186 June 10,
Trade Sept 4,99 J. Janneson
July 28, 94
99
Sir:-
March
17
1900.
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I have laid before the Marquess of Salisbury
your letter 6490 of the 14th instant relative to the
condition of the water approaches to Shanghai.
I am directed by His Lordship to transmit to you,
for the information of the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, copies of a despatch from Her Majesty's
Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, and subsequent corres-
pondence, in regard to the scheme put forward by the
Shanghal General Chamber of Commerce and approved by
Her Majesty's Consul General at that port, for the
formation of a Conservancy Board.
Mr Bax Ironside
It will be observed that Mr. Bax Ironside was
instructed to endeavour to obtain the acceptance of
182 Sept 9,99
the scheme by the Chinese Government.
Copies of your letter under reply and its in-
closures
he Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.