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I recaived vesberday your telegran No. 44 of the 10th instant and at once addressed to the Acting Viceroy a further despatch, copy and translation of which are
herewith forvarded.
It is impossible to regard this additional piracy of a British launch in the close vicinity of Canton in any bat a rost serious light, and I falt aonfident, that you woul' Approve of the opportunity being seized to again prese bore upon the Provincial Government the demand for patrolling cruisers under Imperial Maritime “ustoms control As talagraphed to you in my telegram No. 42, the Admiral is no, not opposed to their employment, and I have little doubt, though no positive proof, that the chief opposition So then throughent has been offered by the Provinotal Treasurer, Hu Esiang Lin, the present. Acting Viceroy. 54, 56 verorbed in Mr. Gly's despatch No. 24 of the 12th Jay that, the reputation of being notoriously anti-foreign and, do my Information goes, has, as the most influential (Shen Hou Chd) and ranber of the Board of Rsorganisation
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the Customs Board (Kuan Wu Ch'a), given more or lasa free
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the cur required to purchase the four cruisers mentioned in your despatch to the Foreign Office No. 208 of Hay 1st Last shop12 be furnished by the Revante Council Ch'u), there still reming the question of the maintenance of the vessels once they are put into commission, seems to me that the Commissioner of Customs should he authorized to dehit his accounts with the money necessary
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