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to the notice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies before, is owing I imagine, to the circumstance

that they were performed some ten years period of some time while I was employed under the Foreign Office, but it can be shown that this was not as Foreign Office Servant, but because I was thought to be the most fitting person to perform those important functions, being conversant with Colonial duties from my early Services at the Mauritius, And from the circumstance of having obtained, by residence among them, a knowledge of the habits and customs of the Chinese, as well as from the fact that I was stationed near the spot at the time they were regained.

Thus when intrusted with the Government of Hongkong, it was owing to my knowledge of Colonial affairs and of Chinese habits and customs that no Military ... was needed.

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to the notice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies before, is owing I imagine, to the circumstance that they were performed some ten years period of some time while I was employed under the Foreign Office, but it can be shown that this was not as Foreign Office Servant, but because I was thought to be the most fitting person to perform those important functions, being conversant with Colonial duties from my early Services at the Mauritius, And from the circumstance of having obtained, by residence among them, a knowledge of the habits and customs of the Chinese, as well as from the fact that I was stationed near the spot at the time they were regained. Thus when intrusted with the Government of Hongkong, it was owing to my knowledge of Colonial affairs and of Chinese habits and customs that no Military ... was needed.
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to the notice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies before, is owing I imagine, to the arcumstance

that they

were performed

some ten years

period of some tim

мне вы

while

I was employed under the Foreign

Effice, but it can be shown that

this

вом

ale extra duties

intrusted to me

not as

а

Porign office Euvant, but because

I was thought to be the most

those fitting person to performe

important functions, berich

Convusant

325

conversant with Colonial duties form.

my early Services at the Maurition, And from the circumstance of ing

having

them

a

obtained, by residence among

knowhage of the habits

And customs of the Chimese, as

wch as

from the fact that I was

stationed near the spot at the time

they won agind egund.

Thus when intimated with the

Government of Hongkong, it was

owing to my knowleage of Colonial affrics and of Chinese

habits and customs that no

Military

yal Thai 20

j

1

!

t

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