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however the news reached me that the above coolies had
again struck work, and that their reason for doing so was attributable to the issue by the Committee of an
unauthorised chinese notice
holding out false hopes of concession on the part of the Government. I enclose a translation of the notice, by which the coolics appear to
have been misled, and a
copy of a private letter from the
Colonial
Ex closure E
In Melaure C
Colonial Secretary to Mr. J. J. Keswick on the subject of it
its
contents will be found ap- pended to the Committee's - "letter to the Editor of the "Daily |
Press "in enclosure C.
7.
On the morning of the
30th ultimo, the Committee, pos- sibly recognising their mistäke in issuing the Chinese notice. referred to above, again approach
ed me and
requested;
an
audi
ence, which I granted them,
and at which the Colonial
Secretary