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ceived yesterday morning from Her Majesty's Minister at Peking in reference to the anti-Foreign feeling existing in Canton and elsewhere arising out of the Placards to which reference was made in my despatch N. 151 of 20th June, paragraph 14, I at once sent for the Directors of the Jung Wah Hospital and told them that the Governor was not only extremely anxious in regard to the state of public feeling which had been aroused here and elsewhere by the scandalous placards and reports that had been spread broadcast over the country but that the Chinese Government had suggested that they (the Directors) should issue a notification which would "calm people's minds."
I told them that this could only be done by their plainly stating that the Tsung Li Yamen was...