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FOREIGN OFFICE,

October

1905.

398

With reference to your letter of August 12th

last, relating to the munitions of war which were

seized on board the Steam Ship "Tung Chau" by the

authorities at Hongkong, I an directed by the Mar-

quess of Lansdowne to state, for the confidential

information of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, that the

Russian Chargé d'Affaires called at this Office on

the 10th instant, and, referring to the private

assurance given to Count de Benckendorff in May last

that, at the conclusion of the present hostilities

between Japan and Russia, the question of the dis-

posal of these munitions of war would be considered

by His Majesty's Government, applied on behalf of

his Government, for their restitution.

Lord Lansdowne proposes, with Mr. Lyttelton's

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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