CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 149

have agreed to accept Conditionally the limits suggested in the memo

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um of the Colonial

-lau sim

Defence Committee

3. With good

I am

to art that Sir Claude

Mordmald may be

instructed by telegraph

h assure guousment that as

me the Chinese ministas

Wha

from as the territory it is proposed to lease

has been handed over to the control

3

the

Hong Kong gaveen neut

that granment will take all possit... precautions to prevent

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by telegraph

ara

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as far as it possibly. Can the based Feniton

being word to facilitate Smuggling into China or in any other way to the inj

detriment

of Chinese interests. The Gamer will recognize that it may be difficult

tologanise

at once

adequate police meashes,

Int the colonial authori-

be

ties will fre definitely

be

instructed to use

thei

beitendraurous to that

end

4. I am further to ack

that the Sir Claude Maidonald may

be

instructed if it is not too late, to try