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CONFIDENTIA I.

Hongkong.

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Sir,

Government House,

Hongkong, 30th. June, 1905.

In accordance with the request

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contained in your Confidential Despatch of the 5th. May,

have the honour to reply as follows to the five points

specified in a letter addressed by Mr. Bertram Cox to the

Secretary of the Board of Trade on the 9th. February last

with regard to the discharge in Hongkong of the Italian

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crew of the S. S. "Inkula", owned by Messrs. J. H. Welsford

and Company.

(1). caused any and, if so, Government ?

Have the men as a matter of fact

what expense to the Colonial

As a matter of fact the only

expense caused to the Colonial Government was the amall

one involved by the maintenance of 3 of the men in the

House of Detention as vagrants from the 9th. to the 11th.

January.

(2).

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

&c.

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