CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7] — Page 274

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Hongkong.

My Lord,

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Government House,

Hongkong, 30th. May, 1906.

I have the honour to enclose a

copy of a confidential Despatch which I have addressed to

His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject

of the recovery under Article XXIII of the Treaty of

Tientsin of debts incurred in Hongkong by natives of

China who abscond to China and have property there.

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I also transmit a print of cor-

-respondence that has passed in this Colony on the subject.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient,

humble servant,

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RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

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Governor, &C..