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thral about.
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one pocket for what it gets with the
مند آناه
&
The lost sentance in suggest this also.
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think it and the bat & ack
will
(with ant gratitude) & say t
Kong carminate to Hang Kemp but that
the Mur d
the sgs fals found to add that
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to him & h.
Ifer does not seem. sufficient to meet the
to meet the pledge of K.M,
8.
that
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a substantive cabubution
wo ho made ( Refer to pass 9 of
draft in 27816/09
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whic
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that even in the loss for is it not be accepted with
that lefse
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gratitude: say
Say commcinating with H.K wa shoh.
wor
out
glad to learn what they propose & gur in 1911 & 1912, panting on
thick the loss
Iajor than in
those years in
་ཞ ་ ༠ . R.2.5.713
Mr. Fiddes
Sir F.Hopwood
We have intentionally abstained from
sending to the Treas. the Est. of H.Kong for the
current financial year until we could screw out of
them some sort of interpretation of the promise
of a "substantial contribution ". For two
reasons
(1) we
want to give no support to tht idea that
the contribution is a Grant-in-Aid, entailing the
usual control of the Treasury over the finances of
the Colony which would be highly embarrassing
and disadvantageous in H.Kong
(2) we w anted to get out of them a contribution
based on
the actual loss of opium revenue, without
undue regard to the sacrifices imposed efforts
being made by the Colony to raise additional revenue
to meet necessary increases of expenditure, apart
from the loss of opium revenue.
The offer of £9,000 approaches sufficiently near-
ly to our request for one half of the direct loss
on opium to justify our policy at least, I
think so on the whole.
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I would now send them the original papers
in 38537, calling special attention to the
remarks of the Gov. on Revenue in his speech to the
Leg. Council on the Est., emphasizing the fact