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papers with

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I laid before the

Marquis of Salisbury your

Letter

of

the 2nd Justant, inquiring

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whether it may

not soon be

possible to make the proposed

application to the Chinese

Government relative to the

extension

of.

the

boundaries of

Hongkong

The negotiations with China to the Burmese frontion

in regard

and the opening of the West

nder Secretary of

State

Colonial office

River

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