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agreed not to change the existing shake

of possession of suggrated that the Duckr.

I

might give me at once

Confidentially

a copy of the Treaty, which if it was to be ratified, must soon become

public by being brought before the Asemblez. He said that he had not yet secu it himself

as it was with the

Minister of Marine, but that he had

conecived the idea of communitaking

it to me and had indeed mentioned

me,

this idea at the Council of Ministers.

He added that the Marshal had approved

if

it, and that the Minister of Marine said

that be said no

objection to it.

Finally the Que Decazes told me that

the only Freench troops in Cochin Chind beyond the limits of the French Colony,

the

were a small detachment

Belta

of some

which he could not at the moment

recall.

rives, the name of

I have t

Signe Lyons

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