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criminal proceedings to be.
some
commenced against, Newspapers for publishing
a
Chinese
document inciting the Chinese to
Kill French Officers and destroy
ships, I stated that the
their war
Chinese workomen in the Dock's
had refused to execute
repairs to French me
any-
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to French men-of-war or
Mail Steamers. Their example
has been followed by
the
cargo
boatmen generally, who decline
to perform any work for m French Vessels.
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2.
A
consequence
vee of this attitude on the part of the Chinese,
summonses were taken out by the Agent of the Messageries Maritimes and a Mr Vincenot
against fourteen of these boatmen. Instead of pleading
as it appears
to me that they might have ~
done, under Section XVII
ef
Ordinance 8 of 1858, reasonable " and sufficient
Cause
" for refusing.
employment, that they China might suffer if they.
vir. that they feared.
or their relatives in
disregarded