CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8] — Page 24

$ 20 a day the civil expenditure occasioned by recent events.

However, the initial complaints will be something to go upon, and so proved a moderate demand if the indemnity is not strongly pressed, the negotiations will now be happily brought into details.

Copy 67.0. with reference to your letter of 19 June (14680). 1915.

I think if we are to demand compensation from China, we had better be careful in sending copy to do. Suggest that compensation of $100,000 should be demanded with an intimation that more will be asked if it is found there is further trouble, necessitating further expense.

[ "I do not like levying this fine. It seems to me a little like blackmail"]

£76 in that life.

Transferred to secret register. A. F. 20/6.

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