Enclosure 7183.

RECR

CO. 192/18%

REG? 21 JAN 84

Extract from a letter to Foreign Secretary Bowen from the acting English Consul at Canton dated December 16, 1883.

"Your Excellency asks me for information about the real state of Canton. Well, I may say generally that the anti-foreign feeling on the part of the people is as strong and bitter as ever; but we have several vessels of war off the settlement, and a large force of non-Cantonese troops in the City, so long as we have these I trust we may look forward to the maintenance of order and quiet. The worst thing is that the people really...

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