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as marksmen that the District Watchmen excelled. In 1957 the only District Watchman who attended the Police Training School came top of his squad. Annual Report of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs for 1957/8, p.38.
27 Ku Hung-ting describes the traditionally passive pro-Government role played by Chinese merchants compared with their Western counterparts, 'who played a vital role in bringing about political reforms,' Asian Affairs, Vol IX, 1978, pp. 309-318.
28 Similar Government control occurred in later years.
29 There had been three strikes by different groups of Chinese workers (pawnbrokers, cargo-boatmen and chair coolies) between 1860 and 1863. Eitel, op. cit., pp.368-369. The Government may not have wanted to risk a strike by members of the merchant class.