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coast such as that of the Pacific.
77.
iho elegate having imposed his phority in this
absolute manner with the support of the militar under the
absolute impossibility of landing, and the Department of
the Interior having d eiged without ang areal and sa sole
judge that the action of the elegate s to be approved;
having lost time the efforts in the negotiations to obtain
from the desired rosult, having lost all hope of etting the Su-
preab Goverment of the Repu lic a revertel of the decision
which had been e proeaeg both oficially and verbelly, it
was occiced to bring the sto mert "yario", "visang" and
"Landratschieff" buck Lo Tong Hong with the 520 pessengers
who had been refused wumittance, ritst leaving a protest
with the British Consul in Terworva, against the unlawful
40GB 1 DUTE GROTE Let forth, and reservist the righle ne
have under noth international and tundei ̧ ui Lav.
2.
The losses through such delay of the ships, the
expanves inevitably incurcod, sad tre artvel losses by the
closing of the business sirvaty organized and in which cap-
ital had been invostea, as well an the loss of profits to
be derived by the business, Cabkad ka kolted Geiicit which
ie set forth in generel terms in the Menor naum which I
have the honour to enclose and which is an Juact copy of
that presented to the Pranident of the epu lic on the akna
of October 1902.
The amounto chown in that document are proved by
the invoices, receipts, etc.. w/1a as regards the cl scifi-
estion of these for rich there are no vouchers, such as
the loss of life and of reasonable profits, they are based
on numerical data in the first case, und on Conservative
est mates in the recond.
#ent
The farts which are net o orth in the above state-
mont,
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