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Sir:
FNINTED
FOR USE
EASTERN No 66
COLONIAL
OF
OFFICE
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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Rear C JUN 00
June 4th, 1900. 553
I have laid before the Marquess of Salisbury
your letter 14030/1900 of the 28th ultimo,
relative
to a request made by the Viceroy of Canton to the or-
ficer Administering the Government of Hongkong that
the Chinese Government may be granted compensation
for the value of the Chinese public buildings in the
leased territory or be permitted to remove the mater-
ial.
Lord Salisbury concure in the reply which Her
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies pro-
poses to instruct Major General Gascoigne to return
to the Viceroy's request.
I em, de
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
2512
Your most obedient
humble Servant,
Fran
Narcis
the 143
Bertie