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the
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claime for compensation of : the residents in the European settlement at Canton for damage
property in the riots of September, 1883.
done to their
2.
The total amount_
claimed was $194,734, while the
sums allowed in com
compensation are in the aggregate #156,500; the deductions made by the Commission averaging, therefore, about 30 per cent. On the whole,
the
the awards are
generally considered by impartial
persone to be satisfactory; for
in this, as in all similar cases,
many of
the claims were
doubtless exaggerated.
3.
Now that this
troublesome business has been
prastically settled, it is hoped that the Chinese authorities will
lay
to heart the lesson that it ought to teach them, vir:
that when riotous attacks
this description are made-
of
on
foreigners,