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dispersed on approach of the troops. Several Europeans had been veolently
assaulted by Chinamen, and the police had been also savagely attacked.
There being a general feeling of m security, I have, at the request of the Governor in Council, mounted a Guard of 100 men in the Chinese quarter of the town ever since
the 3rd Instant, and have taken.
other military precautions
suitable to the
occasion).
that the first appearance
Cryo
It is currently reported
the troops and the precautions
snice taken, have defeated the
plans of the rioters, which
aimed at the setting
fire
and plundering the residences and warehouses of the Europeans. as at fanton last September
But I am
not in.
a positio
to judge of there is any form. - dation for such
belief
I enclose for information
of His Royal stighness copies
of the more
important cor-
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locally
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