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more muccan* than we have generally done in the part. Considering that Hongkong has been a critish Colony for 76 years, the extent and progress of our influence on the
mainland of Tuangtung have been dimpointing. fur sar-
lived cantile cox unity at Canten har liked on a small island
not much larger than the space ocoupled by forsimmare in
the old factory days and bar shom little enterprive in
the way of commercial penetration in the interior. Eith
the exception of the railway to Canton, we have embarked
on no undertaking of any i-portance in Kuangtung and so
industrial mespro har boon our record of incision affort that in
1^95 we permitted france, with little more than a formal
protest, to mscuro s prior right to the exploitation of
the minerai waelth of a province of whlah "ongkong forze
the natural outlet and with which we were closely associated
in trade long before France deevie & far b*tern i over.
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with the highest respect,
Mir.
your most obeffent, by-ble servant,
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