+
}
•A
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Blong Hong was not justified in requiring the broken
Master as
h
trochange
the
man and he provide them with a paedage
$
k th
the ownere
of the ship: The
United Kingdom at the expener of the
ground upon which the Harbour Master took this action was that
the Government fould not press the men
My lake "the risk of
proceding hi Japan! Under these incumstances I have book
that the Board of Trade will
M
Federation with a reply to the request son lained in
by
good
as to favour the
ny
letter
of
the 31" August last that His
Majesty's Gover
Government would
refiend to the Owners of the "Auchewander" the amount
of the
expense inned to them by the action which was take by the
Harbour Master at Hong Kong without any legal justification.
In connection with this subject
I
am also
divoted