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leave the Governor of Hong Kong and His Majesty's Minister
at Peking, who are equally alive to the advantages of
periodical meetings, full discretion to settle the time and
place at which the latter are to be held, in consultation and
agreement with each other and with the other authorities
concerned and having regard to local conditions as they exist
at the time.
3.
Copies of this letter are being sent to the War Office
and the Admiralty.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
George Mounsey.