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DISARMAMENT OF JUNKS.

Coapy.

Foreign Department.

NAA

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN

HONGKONG GOVERNMENT

AND

CONSUL ROBERTSON, C.B.,

AS TO

Abandonment of attempt at Disarmament.

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587

I have the honor to acknowledge

the receipt of your Excellency's Despatch

N° 426 of the 16* instant, communicating

had taken of

the resolution which

гром

revoting the

m

measures.

adopted in May

last for the disarmament of bhinese

Fishing funks, and the prohibition of the

Five poto of

on board of Trading

Junko,

measures.

which

have

you

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revated in consequence of a correspondence

paped

at banton between the Vice!

icel Pay

and Her Britannic Majesty's bonsul,

His Excellency,

Sir Richard Graves Mack Connell, 6.1,

Governor

and bommander, in- Chief

of Hongkong.