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at Canton, but to enable us take full advantage of the
results of such personal intercourse and to adapt our
action to the diversity of our interests in China, Your
Axcellency will, I feel sure, agree with me that it is
essential that His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton
should be in a position to keep this Legation fully in-
formed.
I quite realize that the Working Agreement in con-
nection with the Canton-Fowloon Railway has formed an
exception to the general rule regarding communication
between Hongkong and Canton and my remarks were not in-
tended to apply to it.
As regards the Viceroy, I regret to say that His
Excellency does not in some respects appear to me to show
an adequate appreciation of the assistance and sympathy
which he has received from Your Excellency's Government.
As the correspondence which I am forwarding to you on the
opium question will show, he has revived all the restric-
tions which existed before the recent Agreement was con-
cluded, and in spite of all my offerts, for wesks past,
he persists in a course of action which he must know is
especially
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