No.
116.
Hongkong.
21089
Rc. 13 JUN 06
Government House,
Hongkong, 10th. May. 1906.
I
per Book Post.)
محمد
My Lord,
Foo
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OS Referring to my Despatch No. 158
of the 16th. June, 1905, I have the honour to transmit
eight eopies of the Report of the Harbour Master for the
year 1905.
2.
The total tonnage entering and
#learing during the year amounted to 34,185,091 tons, an
increase of 622,305 tons as compared with the previous
returns and the highest tonnage yet recorded. There was a
decrease of 323 Ocean vessels of 36,410 tons under the
British flag and an increase of 149 Foreign Ocean vessels
of 469,938 tons. The Harbour Master is probably correct
in assuming these variations to have been mainly due to
the facts that the war between Japan and Russia caused a
large number of British ships to come to the East, which
were withdrawn after the destruction of the Baltic Fleet in
May
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&C.
&C.
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