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LAW OFFICERS' DEPARTMENT,

ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE,

14th February 1894.

My Lord:-

We were honoured with Your Lordship's com-

mands signified in Sir Thomas Sanderson's letter

of the 18th November last abating that he was di-

rected by Your Lordship to transmit to us the papers

noted in the accompanying list relating to a question

to which your attention had been called by Her

Majesty's Minister at Pekin in regard to the over-

crowding of vessels engaged in the Chinese passenger

traffic between Chefoo and Chinese and Russian

Manchuria.

That the position of the question so far

as British vessels were interested in it, was fully

stated in Mr O'Conor's despatch (No.171) of the 29th

July 1893.

That our attention was especially invited

to the despatch on the subiect, addressed by Mr

The Earl of Rosebery. K.G.,

&0.,

&C., &C.,

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