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pledge that the site

used

for military

02.

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no merantile

establishments with the poss

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I should

le

glad to

see Honghous

made impregnable during your

ad ministration.

Yours very truly Signed Byron Bijnan.

lidential

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lohen talking yesterday withe Wang Jian Shan, the Viceroy's

foreign Secretary

and right hand

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man, he referred to the Germa occupation of Hiarchow, and

ise pressed a fear that other Powers would follow suit. This brought

Forn

zoun d

cxelension of

British. Kowloon, and he told me

that while unwilling to cede any territory he thought the Viceroy. would entertain favourably any propoval on the part of Greal" Britain to leave one

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