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The Derkes greatest
Impel
s greatest fursonal friends & most trustent illfred How for de howing not on
Hole Officers
their own abo
me but telling
only In.
ood.
fab
strongest regardo for
me of the ing and high opinion, wel hit
Soccastray, had of me. Recously
Lieutenant General
junior
the service but not in a
a
to me in
E Avus em -
-played
ad over
my
a ya head although,
h he
had completed his fiva yraw Com-
mand 40 a
owing
To
only
Major General, while
my promotion, I had,
shree out of my five years.
With
my
letter
of
The 1 of th
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Feby: Denclosed copy of General Wm: Lagardo reprint of the Public. Md.
-dress that was presented to me
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the community of Hong Kong.
and which, like
by
my lettes, was
MOUNT MASCAL,
BEXLEY,
KENT.
received in silence. It
been thought
cht at
at
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may
have
the Colonial office
that this Addres, was
got up by
means similar 10 those by which Sir George Bowen's dinner was pro-
· moted; but I can most solemnly
and
sincerely declare that I never gave the slightest glinenior of a kinks
suggestion, that I wished for, expected, any expression of public or other opinion about mejor an
any
act of mine, while I held the Mali- sary Command in China and the Straits Settlement. And as for my
higher!
wife, she has, if possible
and Reener cense than I have as
-to the disgra
ace that sould attach
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