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observe, meets the exaggerated
made, are having
having my
most careful
that occasionally
attention; and do not think
anything has been omitted within
the
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at meand
- my disposal.
the-
The attitude of the
people is, on the whole, that of great calmness. Hongkong has so
often enjoyed immunity, when its -neighbours have been suffering,
easy
to
that it would not be convince the inhabitants that the
present sickness is of anything but a temporary character. The public press, too, I am glad to ~
observe
arise with
rumours
unhesitating contradiction; while the manifest desire of the Government
to give every information and to conceal nothing, has not been without its influence in preventing
any approach to unreasonable fear. I have been questioned
6.
by
various Consuls as to the state
of the public health, and I have withheld from them no
information which the Government possesses.
have also urged upon them the
desirabilitu
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