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Dieul to snow whether it will be possible to inform the Frenct

the French Consul

Good

and

Stong Kong of 'he date Endyment will be

? It is

on which delivered.

as the F.O. have pointed out

to M. Truelle, unlikely that the nature of of the judgement will be known until

judgment has actually been passed, and, if, by any chance, it was known, it would be improper to inform the French

Government

even

as to it.

I am unable to see

from the correspondence

these papers that we can yet from any

on

accurate idea

as

to the dati

m

Judgment

which

in this case will be delivered.

It is

1

I assume,

intended that the

French Government should infrom the French

Consul at Hong Kong

themselves, informed

as

soon as

they

are

We may reply that the Sec: of State

regnets that is

form

an

is not yet possible to

opinion

as to when judgment

will be passed in this case,

and that

he cannot undertake to do more than

inform F.O. of the terms

as

soon as it is

of communicated to him,

the judgment

in onder that they may acquaint the

French Government.

Add that he will

keep F.O. fully informed of the progress

of

the case

from which it sisses will