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would enforce it; a few days delay for the examination of the books being agreed to.
The Italian Consul stated that, whether no decision or an adverse one is given, the Minister and Admiral for Italy would be informed. I could obtain no information as to the direction or nature of the coercion which, as likely, if in this neighbourhood, to affect foreign interests adversely, I deprecated.
(Signed)
I have, &c.,
B. C. George Scutt,
His Majesty's Consul General.