Sir,
// Sept 1902.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 812 of the 16th of July last and of the addresses to H. M. there referred to, from the General Community, the Chinese Community, the Masonic lodges and the Roman Catholics of Hong Kong.
I have had the honour to lay these addresses before H.M. who has been pleased to express his high appreciation of the loyalty of the inhabitants of his Colony of Hong Kong and to direct that a suitable acknowledgement may be conveyed to the persons who signed the addresses.
I have …
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