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with His Excellence, Lau Iwan bat the Governor General of Kwantung and Iwangsi, when he told me he had three days before received a letter from the Chinese General Commanding the Troops at Rashqar referring to the events in the

houthwestern provinces of the Empire. His Excellency having asked the acting Consué (2. Hance) aust come other gentlernen (including two sunofficial members of my Council ) to accompany res to his gallery of maps, pointed out on a large suap of the Empire the

Cosition

the Chivere troops and

the limits of the districts they intended

to

t occupy

the same day

In returning my vicit

on

board the steamer

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to central Asin which he believed would result from the good

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