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Consul at Mengtzu and to the Governor General of Indo-China at Hanoi against the new Regulation. The West River route (via Nanning) is now as free from piracy and brigandage as it is ever likely to be under Chinese rule; otherwise the boycotting of Tongking may be expected to improve trade through Burma just as did the Red River disturbances in 1903.
(Signed)
I have &c.,
W.H. Wilkinson.
Consul-General.
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