the troops seize
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boat with its
onveggling
cargo
people at once drag
Chinese territory,
these
in "foreign conl'
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officials
are
lecret and spread unobserved, and the local
The English
Officials have recently
afraid to interfere.
become thoroughly
As
ex extER
and difficulties of
all
Aware
their f
canning
and ability, but
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kinds arise. Over and over
great,
that.
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acin
chance
they
happens that they stir up
the English Officials to make sejures and detentions and place obstacles in the way, or that it is very difficult to effect anything-
to the Friad Society malefactors, Coming these band together in especially large numbers in Hong-Kong
and
the foreign settlements in various places. Their revival and fresh
growth dates from some
And the mischief. for a long time
years
back
has been spreading
They grow
feared
their numbers are
any
were driven to revolt
it is much to be feared that the flood-
would be too
strong
to be
Stopped, which
would be a disastrous result. The tricks
of these
their movements are without
men are
too
deep to fathom, and
any
very
close to
Kowloon
them and is further connected in the rear with Locuschan, P. Co. Tan-shui
and other places under Hui-chou,
so that there is
greater need than ever
for close precautions
I made the following corrections: - "onveggling" -> likely "smuggling" but kept as is due to rule 7, however "onveggling" is not a word, a possible correction is "smuggling" - "conl'" -> likely "connexion" or "control" but kept as is due to rule 7, a possible correction is "connection" - "lecret" -> "secret" - "pevoll" -> "revolt" - "disastions" -> "disastrous" - "pebblements" -> "settlements" - "sejures" -> "seizures" - "Rueishan" -> possibly "Locuschan" (as in the corrected text) - "Tan-shir" -> "Tan-shui" - "tui chon" -> "Hui-chou" - "grecautions" -> "precautions" However, to follow the instruction to output only HTML usingfor paragraphs, the corrected text is provided above. Some possible corrections are not made due to the constraint of rule 7.