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H. Parkes

Foreign Office,

C O.

21726

6203

370

REGE 3 EC *4

December 17. 1884.

Sir,

I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before The Earl

of Derby copy of a

Despatch from

ster Majesty's Minister at Peking

with reference to a Chinese plot for

1o 226 · Oct· 15 · 1884

the destructions

of

French Steamer

at Hong Kong.

I am,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

The Under Secretary of

State

Philif 1

Colonial Office