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5. It

・appears from the bonaut's reply but 1868.

that the ViceKey did not consider that

Nicellay

Ilahina as yet

had a

a National

the leonoul could

give

me mo

Slag. further

and

information on the subject than that

which

was

contained in a correspondence

between himself and bommodore Jones which he enclosed, but from no port of which did it appear that the bonoul-

the ViceKay, or Senior Naval Officer supposed there had been

any

National

Flag as yet adopted by the feneral comperial lovemment of China. b. Vice Admiral the Honorable fir Hanny Rippel having soon afterwards arrived in this Port, I immediately

drew

Kais Excelleucy's attention to the subject,

i

Enclosure N°3 16 October, 1868.

transmitting copy of the

correspondence

with bonsul Robertson. To

•Enclosure # the Admiral at o

17th October, 1868.

5

Ondloome !que Octolu, 1868

once

• my surprise

• replied that instructions

from the British Admiralty had long since

been received and

promulgated in an

Eriter of the Station still in force.

and

that by these instructions and undu thut

Ender official natice had been

natice had been given that

the Chinese Goverment had communicated

to Her Majestips bevernment the import out fact of their adoptions of a Government

cornered

}}

Yellow

Slag of China". viz: "three "ground: with Dhagan I? ye

I therfore forwarded a copy of the

7

Admiral's communication to bonoul Robertson,

and

notified my intention of publishing in the Gazette, for general information, the

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