b
437
8.
After preliminary remarks, M. Leung On proposed that the Military Picket should be
removed from the Tung Wa Hospital -hall the following day; that the Director of the Hospital and their -friends should hold a public
meeting; after
ter which
someone
would address the crowd to be
assembled at the Hospital gates,
ار
and use such arguments
- might be agreed
on at the
meeting to induce the
to their work in
go
9.
dot
onen
peace.
to
I objected to this on-
three grounds, namely:-
1: It was not a matter that
in
in
concerned the Sung We
any way Hospital Directors as
such;
2: No public meeting would be held without the permission of
the Government; and
3 : The collecting of a crowd any part of the city was not a thing that could be thought of,
long as the publie pence
as
disturbed.
10.
was
It was then proposed to issue a Froclamation in the name
of the Tung Wa Directorate. This I
said would amount to
an
the
abdication on the part of Government; and the assumption
of governmental power by the _
Corporation