CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
711 C 6. 27074
22 JUL 07
Government House,
Hongkong, 28th June, 1907.
My Lord,
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's telegram of the 12th instant, requesting that this Government will take special precautions to prevent the smuggling of warlike stores from Hongkong into China.
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The nature and extent of the precautions taken in this matter were explained in Mr. F. J. Badeley's letter of the 23rd May, 1903, addressed to the Colonial Office and enclosed in Mr. Chamberlain's Confidential Despatch of the 29th May, 1903, and in Sir Henry Blake's Confidential Despatch of the 3rd July, 1903.
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These precautions are still strictly observed, and I have impressed upon the Captain Superintendent of Police the necessity for special vigilance at the present time. I fear, however, that for the reasons given by Sir Henry Blake it is impossible to devise...
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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