CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900 — Page 393

H.M. Minister at Peking stating that with reference to the trade in fir amo with Shanghai.

2. Jam to request

you toifany the

Harquess of Salisten that the Gamma of Hay Ray has been

with the

acquainted with facts I literally and asked to rehat I tebgraph on the arrival sof the shif what

if any, are landed in

the Colay

3. Jam to

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explain that it was

not

・thought necessay

to enquni whether there is usually a lege trade

in firearms with $36

Colay, as suggested in lettes under acks, où neir of the state-

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ments in a recent

despatch from

Huy Sittany Blake cots of which

enclosed

das

in the

forwarded letter from this Office of the 24th regarding

ultinio that a

the large quantities of am

and ammunition in infated into the Colony, for Macao and other places.

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