CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905 — Page 45

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Blong Hong was not justified in requiring the broken

Master as

h

trochange

the

man and he provide them with a paedage

$

k th

the ownere

of the ship: The

United Kingdom at the expener of the

ground upon which the Harbour Master took this action was that

the Government fould not press the men

My lake "the risk of

proceding hi Japan! Under these incumstances I have book

that the Board of Trade will

M

Federation with a reply to the request son lained in

by

good

as to favour the

ny

letter

of

the 31" August last that His

Majesty's Gover

Government would

refiend to the Owners of the "Auchewander" the amount

of the

expense inned to them by the action which was take by the

Harbour Master at Hong Kong without any legal justification.

In connection with this subject

I

am also

divoted