CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885 — Page 85

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the Colonial Office.

the e

Arms

& munitions

French Government to exercise

on the subject of

the

right of

search on

The High.

Sen.

requested

export of q was for. Hongkong

Hong Kong to China.

and that Sir I Pannefote

also to inclose

That our opinion was

wxo

as

a letter from

that department in which

the

engring

was made whether

Austration Coal in British

Ships consigned

to other than

Chinese merchants would be

jeopardized

voyage to

a Chinese Treaty Port, in View

of

the recent decision of

the

reuch

that

to the reply to be made to

enquiry.

In obedience to

Your Lordships

Commands we have the honour

to ke port

That in 1859 and again in

1870

France declared Coal

not to be contraband ophter England

in 1870 considered

that