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Ienclose copies of

received

from Mr

a

report

Hance which

supports this assumption, of my reply to Mr Hance, and of notes

that I exchanged with the

explanned

Hennessy Courtesy.

tery

ment

Tsung-li

The

pccasion

The Yamên

that its note to Sir John

was

a

It is

- mere message of

none the less

to me that writing of State

A

cedented

Mṛ Hance it will be

as a

Qu

mys-

Depart-

any proceeding

so unpre-

should have

occurred.

to it.

seen conceived

himself bound

out

of loyalty to me,

not

not to forward the letter handed to

huim until he had referred to

It eventually found it's trong trong

of a

I believe

by

way

the hand

subordinate official deputed.

ostensibly for some other

purpose.

I wrote nothing to Sir John Hennessy

regarding it.

I have to

(Signed) Thomas Francis Wade:

The Earl Granville H. G.

te

I do not appear to have replied.

officially

to my Hance-

(44) J. Wade