Chinese during the recent epidemio of plague. I was then willing to and did
consede to their national
prejudices and superstitions
so
fara
as it was reasonable
to do so, but, as Your Lord- ship will probably recollect,
I had
on more than
one oc.
casion to make them clearly
understand that there was
a limit to such concessions.
4.
Seeing then the dis- position on the part of the
ignorant
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ignorant classes of the Chinese to resist and hamper the Government notwithstanding the fact that reasonable con_ sideration has been and is
invariably shewn to them in all matters affecting their interests, I was de- termined on political grounds to avail myself of the recent
opportunity- when right undeniably on the side of the Government - to establish once and for all the important
was