CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 142

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J. Olonor

Chefoo Passenger

Traffic

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M. 15654.

Sir:-

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C. O.

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Per 28 Mw 31

BOARD OF TRADE,

(Marine Department

LONDON, S.W.,

30th October, 1893.

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant,

transmitting, by direction of the Earl of Rosebery

a despatch, with inclosures, from Her Majesty's

Minister at Peking, respecting the overcrowding

of vessels engaged in the Chinese passenger traffic

between Chefoo and Chinese and Russian Manchuria,

and requesting to be furnished with the observations

of this Department on the subject.

In reply, the Board desire me to state, for

His Lordship's information, that they agree that

it is desirable that effective measures should be

taken to prevent such overcrowding so far as British

vessels are concerned, and that the question should

be referred to the Law Officers of the Crown to con-

sider what form such measures should take. The

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.

Board