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and strongly against any Regulation such as is proposed; and in respect I would especially call attention to the minute by G.M. Power which forms the enclosure to the letter from the Local Government Board, and in which it is, I think rightly, pointed out that the suggested regulation in the end may do more harm than good to the commercial interests of the Colony.

3. I am now honour to acknowledge the receipt of four telegrams.

The 20th instant inclosing information that the number of the policemen at Shanghai lately amounted to 8075 instead of, as I had previously reported, 6240 persons.

4. I fully recognize the difficulty of this position and appreciate the desire to conciliate as far as possible the Chinese residents in Hongkong, but it is, I repeat, impossible that I should approve this regulation.

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