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I do not anticipate any satisfactory result in view of the fact that the murdered man was accused by Chinese authorities of complicity in a plot to blow up the Governor's Yamen and the Hongkong police report that he had been engaged in an abortive attempt at insurrection at Huichow.

I am addressing a despatch to the Officer administering the Government of Hongkong containing detailed observations on the case.

Repeated to Hongkong

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