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evitruvon
originate and get
- spread abroad. My relations
with the high Chinese Authorities
friendly in the extreme, and I am assured by them that all necessary precautions will be and are taken for the protection of Foreigners and their property .
Nevertheless experience of Chinese Governmental action do's not lead me to reby implicitly ___ upon it - however good the intention may be
safe to ignore,
in
ces
nor is it so
idle and unmeaning, reports
own
: general circulation. My view of the matter, and I have
impressed it - strongly upon the
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British Community, is to make
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unnecessary display of alarm, but to go on as if nothing out of the usual course of
occurring.
· events was
of events It is difficult, however,
to get people to follow, such advice when they imagine, nightly
are surrounded with
sume the
I presum
wrongly, they dangers, hence, I letter of
of the 3rd Instant :
do
at present
than bring the existing situation to the knowledge of His Excellinay the Lieutenant-Governor, deeming it my duty to do so for the
considerations above mentioned
and in view of the influence any