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at Hongkong did not guarantee the

payment of the claim and expenses. Etp to this lime Chun

se

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Shun has not informed whether he has adopted either these three proposals. 12 I am quite sure of having told Mr Bennys clearly and repeatedly, that bhun Chen had_ been imprisoned_ " in connection " with a claim of to

the form of Vögel Hagedorn 462, but that neither the said firm requested me, nor myself the Chinese Authorities to imprison the Uncle Chun Chen, but that the Chinese Authoritie, had imprisones

him at their own free will. To my best knowledge and belief Mr Dennys, on leaving my house,

should not have been in doubt

that this was the meaning of my words.

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8. During the came conversation

Mr Bennys informed me, that some Chinese at Stong Hong intended sending a petition for deliverance of Chim then through the medium of the Governor, phong trong

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of

and the British Consul

at Canton to the Chinese authordie;

at Canton, that the British Consil would have to

6 forward it and

that M. Dennys wished to speak