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PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE

C.U.557

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

a copy of a letter which he has recend from

Colonel fordon expressing his opinion with regard to the position of affair in China, and with

respect to the enlistment

of Chinese to supplement

the regular forers.

Which are maintained

for the defcum & Morgong.

Ian to add that

these papers have des bun communiated to

the Morey'in fine and the R. Com" on he de

the Non fire

and that dond

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Amilarly has bee informed (a tilpa

from the formernor of

Honphong, dated the 31th of July, that Colonel fordon has

entered the demise

of the Sournment of

China

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