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with the permission of the Conference.
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You will be furnished by the Foreign Office with a copy of the Report (with Appendices) of the Royal Commission on Opium which was published in 1895. I am to call your attention to the evidence laid before the Commission with respect to Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements as shown by the Index (Vol. 7) and the Appendices XXIII-XXV (Vol. 5).
8. Your name has been placed first on the list of British delegates, and it will therefore naturally fall to you to speak and act on their behalf on any occasions when it is necessary to convey to the Conference the views of the British representatives as a whole.
It is impossible to furnish you in advance with instructions as to the attitude which you should