Ving; and to ask

"You to call their Lordships' attention to the last para. of the despatch.

2. A copy of this dispatch has also been sent to the Foreign Office.

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Previous Paper.

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DESPATCH

398

HONG KONG

No.

2000

JUN CL

(Subject.)

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Plague Patients

Removal to China.

embodies message for Legco Council that should be permitted.

Atty Earl adores that

Venice Convention not finding in thing:

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quent Paper.

To do with

based

on

The Venice Convention has nothing

to do with the decision, which is, I take it, on political and moral grounds.

No doubt it is a serious matter for Hong Kong, though

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more serious matter for

than the epidemic

for Bombay (this outbreak is quite comparable in violence with the Bombay one) and

if the effect on trade is as

stated, it will be worth Hong Kong's while

to spend freely to stamp out the present outbreak and render another impossible.

In the past fortnight there have

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