CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4] — Page 309

CONFIDENTIA L.

Hongkong.

Enclosure 1.

12358

Rece

REG 7 APR 06

Government House,

Hongkong, 7th. March, 1906.

306

My Lord,

Goo

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In continuation of my Confidential

Despatch of the 23rd. February on the subject of the

seizure by the Viceroy of the Two Kwang of certain coal

mortgaged to the National Bank of China, Limited, I have

the honour to enclose a copy of the account referred to in

the letter from the National Bank dated the 2nd. December,

1905, which formed the lst. enclosure to the correspondence

marked No. 7 to the above-mentioned Despatch, copies of

four declarations concerning the possession of the coal by

the National Bank and a copy of an opinion by the Attorney-

-General based upon those declarations and upon a consideri

-ation of all the correspondence and documents in the

Enclosure. at z

Buclosure 2.

case.

2.

I have sent copies of the above

opinion and declarations to His Majesty's Minister at

Peking.

3.

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G..

80.

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80 ...

I have not yet been able to

obtain