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the officer

bof

endeavouring to impress on

officer in commands The expedition) to (owleon my opinions of the conduct

of

certain officers of that cos Detachment, and conceiving His Excellency although not addressing officially

me

wished his sentiments to be

known by those officers__ I

shewed him the note and sent a copy of it to the officers who had been at

Cowloon together with

a

s

memorandum requiring that all articles baker from

1

Cowloon should be sent to

my office _an officer should either state that

and that each

he had taken nothing from

Cowloon or had returned all the articles as,

s required. Scan assure His tealhny

that had the note been marked privaten had I considered His Excellency did not wish the contents of the note to be known by the partis in

question I would not have shown it to any person. Upon seeing the

notes published in the