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that the unmeasured language is calculated to still further inflame popular feeling and so cause additional embarrassment.
Not very long since the "China Mail", I believe, a paper which the proprietor of the "China Mail", at whose office it is published, describes as progressive and anti-obstructive in tone, contained an article on the prospect of a war against the French in Tonquin, proposed to offer 100 dollars for the head of every French Officer, and to ... dollars for those of private soldiers.
That such language is employed in one of the more reputable native prints it is presumable that the lower class papers would be still more objectionable. It is therefore most gratifying to learn from your Excellency that the Registrar General had, by Your Excellency's order, warned native editors as to the tone of their articles.
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(SA) HoKai, Acting Governor.