CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892 — Page 7

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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due exercise of his own judgment...

and discretion, and that neither in

the case as

brought to his notice,

nor for any subsequent reason does there appear to be any just

cause for calling in question his

ship of

decision not to send a

to look for the missing vessel.

war

The request of the memorialists

belonging to the Hong Kong Chamber

inflexible of Commerce that an.

rule should be laid down that every

possible aid should be rendered

Ships to Vesels in dishess by H. M. Ships to

in those waters, is too manifestly absurd to require comment, beyond observing that such aid is always rendered when practicable, and that the Commander-in-Chief is and must be the judge of what is possible.

and

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