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On its arrival an answer would be returned to our moorundum, in the meantime he hoped Sir John Jordan would telegraph to Hongkong recommending some concession which the Ministry could meet by a compromise.
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Referring to the suggested addition of Woi lan as a Chinese negotiator Lord Li evidently did not favour it, alle- ging that Wei Han only spoke French and that he connection with the Butler-Wright cane had done him no good.