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time the existing agitation may possibly have subsided.
I am to add with reference to paragraph 9 of your
letter that no instructions appear to have been sent
to His Majesty's Representative at Peking in 1900 to
inform the Chinese Government of the difficulty which
had arisen in respect to that portion of the frontier
and of the manner in which it had been met. This
omission was no doubt due to the disturbed state of
China at the time.
I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
Fa Campbell