CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 42

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

quard at their zeal & efforts bring counteracted, & their position deprived of the influence wh:

ohd attack to it,

ao

we had

seen was the case with gend

Capron & with other foreign

officers who had taken seurice

under the Japanese Goot. Nor be Long admitted that he had

not foreseen this pomibility.

For my own part I beg permission to add that US

Officers relieved of the responsibilities

arc

subject

to wh: Portal Officers bi America or Europe & hamstring by Japanese interference &

control

& control wd

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in

my

opinion,

not supply the foreign public

in Japan with

a

reliable

Suarantee that their portal.

Interests wd be well attended to.

as bearing upon the degree of

trust that

may

be reposed

in the papancoe Gost for the delivery of mails. I may mention that copies of every telegram sent along Japanere wires is forwarded to a bureau of inspection

at Yedo.

In conclusion I have to forward

to YL. a copy of a report by 23 Mitchell, the Portinarter few!

of

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