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willingness to consider their representations when that -pressure was removed.
12.
The posting of these
C
On
the
notices took place morning of the 25th eApril.
on the same
day
But early and before their purport
could have become known, the Superintendent of Police
reported to me on
orally
at this
house that the affair which
in
had been increasing gravity for several days.
was
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was reaching an acute stage.
et
of great mob collected on
two
was
of the principal streets stopping all the traffic, by threate, and in
and was
one one
Two
Cases
by actual
violence, preventing the
jinrichsha-coolice and
other labourers from
following their
He moreover
occupations.
informed
Me
that, according to information
received by him, on which he could, thoroughly rely,
(though