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Committee Room,
Whitehall
29 July 1878.
I am desired by the Committer
Colonial Defence to acknowledge the
Eceipt of your
letter marked senet a
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Confidential of the 17th rest", covering despatch from this Excellency the Gporrna. of Hong Kong relative to the possibility of Wittliging Hong Kong
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for raising Chinese for the Lucer's service.
I am to state, for the information of Secretary Sir Michael Hicks Beach, that they are of opinion th? the proposition made by His Excellency appears to them well- conthy of consideration for the reasons stated in the 2nd paragraph on page 15 of their The Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies.