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Enclosure to Despatch No. 19 of

18th January, 1902.

B.M. Consulate-General, Canton, 7th January, 1902

4

Dear Mr. Stewart Lockhart,

6719

80

17 FEB 2.

The Authorities here are anxious to arrange to obtain some arms etc., with which to protect the steam-launches on the Canton waters from pirates; and they have approached me to ask you if it could be arranged that they be allowed to import from your Colony, say 1,500 Mausers and 1,500 Revolvers, these arms to be distributed among the launches and the guard boats.

If you can do anything in the sense they now desire, the Viceroy would send an Official Despatch covering the request so that you could put it through officially.

Of course the question is one for the decision of you and your Government, only I feel obliged to pass on their request to you, notwithstanding the terms of the Peking Protocol forbidding the import of arms into China for two years, as there may be circumstances that may induce you to give the matter a bearing more or less favourable.

Yours very sincerely,

(Sgd.) James Scott.

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Enclosure to Despatch No. 19 of 18th January, 1902. B.M. Consulate-General, Canton, 7th January, 1902 4 Dear Mr. Stewart Lockhart, 6719 80 17 FEB 2. The Authorities here are anxious to arrange to obtain some arms etc., with which to protect the steam-launches on the Canton waters from pirates; and they have approached me to ask you if it could be arranged that they be allowed to import from your Colony, say 1,500 Mausers and 1,500 Revolvers, these arms to be distributed among the launches and the guard boats. If you can do anything in the sense they now desire, the Viceroy would send an Official Despatch covering the request so that you could put it through officially. Of course the question is one for the decision of you and your Government, only I feel obliged to pass on their request to you, notwithstanding the terms of the Peking Protocol forbidding the import of arms into China for two years, as there may be circumstances that may induce you to give the matter a bearing more or less favourable. Yours very sincerely, (Sgd.) James Scott.
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Enclosure to Despatch No. 19 of

18th. January, 1902. -

B... V's. Consulate-General, Canton, 7th. January, 1908-

4

Dear Mr. Stewart Lockhart,

0.0

6719

80

17 FEB 2.

The Authorities here are anxious to ar-

range to obtain some aros etc., with which to protect the stean- launches on the Canton watars from picates; and they have approachel ne to ask you if it could be arranged that they be allowed to import from your Colony, say 1,500 Yausers and 1,500 Revolvers these arus to be distributed among the launches and the guard boats.

If you can do any thing in the sense they now desire, the Viceroy would send an Official Despatch covering the raquast so that you could put it through officially.

Of course the question is one for the decision of you and your Government, only I feel obliged to pass on their request to you, notwithstanding the teras of the Peking Protocol forbilling the import of acas into China for two years, as there may be circumstances that may induce you to give the matter a bearing more or less favourable.

Yours very sincerely,

(S1.) James Scott.

:th

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