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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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P.S June 24th I have this day telegraphed to your Lordship is
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The Coment at Canton I tater that
The Vicering hour devicers about
the transfer of the guns-
declines tonus_ Further by telegraphs and despatelo_"
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$13.94. Commulate
Cantow
22 June 1885-
to Your Excellency's
"secret" Despatch of the 17 the list. I
Greatty regret to have to state that
a hitch has occurred in the
regotiations for the guns, and that! the Viceroy has given it as his opinion that, as the danger of a war witto
Russia seems to have,
ve pased-
away, the guns can be no longer wryently required by the British Government, and that he prefer. to retain them. He has consequently
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declined