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Telegram
Anciano
Sir C.Hardinge.Petersburg)
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26 January 26th
Eo.15.
To-day in conversation Count Lamsdorff tald me
that a painful impression had been produced on the
Emperor by statements made to him by naval authorities
that the crew of "Burni" at Hongkong are treated like
animuis and not like prisoners of war.
He expressed himself as incredulous of such reports and
asked me whether I could not give him some details to
correct this impression. I told him that such reports
were Wigross exaggerations, that of course some restraint
was necessary in a port where the military garrison was
W Amall but that fact that the sailors were allowed to
walk about in groups of ten showed that such restraint
was not excessive. I should be glad of any details with
which your Lordship could furnish me to counteract
such calzanies.
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