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and plausible address and she is clever enough to have imposed upon many persons in good society in Hongkong and elsewhere.

In the course of correspondence in the year

1909 with regard to the disposal of prisoners sentenced by His Majesty's Supreme Court at Shanghai Sir Havilland de Sausmarez informed this Government that Sir Edward Grey had expressed the

opinion, in which he concurred, that it was desirable to prevent the return to Treaty Ports of persons convicted of serious offences. It would seem to be most undesirable that the prisoner Monteith, who is apparently without means of any sort, should be turned adrift at Shanghai or at any place in the Far East, and I accordingly propose, subject to any instructions that you may telegraph, to send her to England on the expiration of her

sentence. Circumstances have arisen which have caused me to come

to the conclusion that the state of her health is not now such as

to require her earlier release, and I have to enquire whether the

Foreign Office would be prepared to defray the cost of a passage

second class by intermediate P. & 0. Steamer in a sum of £38 . 10

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I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble servant,

Governor,&c..

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