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provisions so haraping
and distasteful
as those necesary for the disarmament of
vefsels visiting this harbor, unlep such attempt
was
part of a system
undertaken
munison
to secure
with neighboring powers. So as
tradus visiting Hanghong against any
greater
inconvenience than
exposed to elsewhere.
than they would be
5. I had waited somewhat
more than
bix weeks before I applied to Consul of Robertson for information as to the mode in which the provisions of the Vice Ray's proclamation were being enforced, and have to report that so far as I can learn during all that period no steps, not even sufficient
to
save appearances, had been tatten by the Nice boy to carry out his shockcination.
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to. Thus, for example, I cannot find
on
CIP
inquiry through the Harbor Master's op Department that any of the punts visiting this Port and
had
even
frequenting the banton River,
been disarmed or searched,
-07
had heard of any other vessels being Searched
amb.
It is therefore my firm belief
there for that either the Vice. Ray from the first
intended to enforce his
mever
proclamation, or that
in the interval between his promise to Vice and the period
Admiral Sir Henry Keppel
fixed for it's excecution, he had received instructions from Siking inconsistent with
his then intended line of action.
7. From the tenor
transmitted to
me
of the
the correspondence
by Sir Rutherford
Vide Endosue & Alcock in his communication of the 168
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She Sery of State No
482 of the 18th April.
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