Secretary
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C
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Government House.
October 17, 1904
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your cypher telegram of 30th September and to confirm my reply
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of the 3rd October on the
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subject of the
S.S. "Kaiping". En clair versions
of telegrams
are "En route".
2.
The steamer in question
was registered under foreign
flag and belonged to the Zuid-China
Steam Navigation Company of which the
agents at this port are
Matheson & Company,
Jardine,
It arrived here
with 1100 tons of rice and a general
cargo from ChinKiang
on 15th June
after a delay
at Shantou
between the 22nd and 30th June
by the
Right Honourable
Alfred Lyttelton, Esq., C.B., Secretary of State for the Colonies.