Amazing Reply by the Canton Foreign Minister to Protest Against Surtax: Communication Returned with Sharp Letter: No Basis for Powers to Talk Hongkong, Nov. 8.
'The Portuguese Consul-General at Canton, as Senior Consul, on behalf of the Consular Body, has emphatically protested against the Inspection Bureau regulations as a contra vention of Maritime Customs' rules and the Treaties with the foreign Powers concerned.
The Consular Body, he stated, cannot agree to the inspection of for eign steamers on the West River by the Opium Inspeetion Bureau.
Canton, Nov. 10.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.