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· Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs approve the astion which I resently took in issuing a proclamation

,

forbidding the export of

export of arms as

from Foongkong to the insurgent

district of Weichau in China,

revoking that provamation

and in revoking

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the suppression of the insurrection.

In the Foreign Office

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letter of May 13th ultimo (of which : ( a copy was forwarded with the

despatch now under acknowledgment), Lord Granville adde approval of "Sir G. Bowen's intention to apply

"for

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for further instructions in the event of an outbreak of hostilities. "between China and a Foreign -

"Yower."

3.

It was yesterday-

announced here by telegram

that hostilities betwren France

and China are 124

supposed to be so imminent that the English

Naval Officers

now in the

Chinese service have been

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ordered by the oAdmiralty to-

give their

resignations. If this

announcement be true, it is

assuredly

!

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