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immedia
mediately
to him
to the illegal arrest here of a Chinese subject by the Chinese Gunboat Authorities.
I should have been
disposed to agree
with you
considering that the action which
2.
in
had
you
already
taken in this
graver matter; and the expression
of regret
on the part of the
Chinese Government would
have ben sufficient,
and that
no special representation need
now be made in the matter
of the Tiny Wa Hospital,
6 for the fact th
it not.
the date of your
a
still wore
were
that since
communication
improper
despatch has been addressed by the Provincial Treasurer. of Caution to the Committee of
the Tung Wa Hospital.
In
this despatch the Committee
are ordered perccuptorily to
forward.
Eveloure
forward im me
the "whole
"whole of the balance of the
"Hospital. Frend amounting
"
in all to thirty or forty
thousand
"dollars"," and the order ~- concludes with the following threat: "Do not try to shirk
"the matter
by making causes,
"and let there not be the least
"neglect or delay,
lest such
ow in
you
" conduct it wolve " trouble" (lit: may
for you).
3.
r
be awkward
The Chairman of the
Committee, whore wife and
rexide in Cauton and
family who owns property there,
very
wao
much terrified by this -threat, and endeavoured first
to induce the Committee to r
authorize him to trauenrit
the
money
as ordered, but..
they very properly refucced.
then