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Mr.

Foreign Office

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Mr. Fairfield,

Mr. Wingfield,

Mr. Brimston,

Mr. Meade.

Mr. Buston,

Marquess of Ripon,

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I am directed

Dec. 94

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by the

Marquess of Ripon to request you

request you to lay before the Earl of Kimberley the enclosed copy of a despatch

from the Governor of Hongkong

bringing to the notice of H.M. Government the services of the Pathologists Kitasato, Aoyama, and Yersin during

the epidemic of bubonic plague in the colony

His Lordship would be...

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