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Enclosure!.
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Precis
on
Mr. Whitehead's letter to
"The Times."
Paragraph!. Mr Whitehead begins with a
pathetic appeal to the British Public against official oppression in Hongkong.
"There is a curious incon-
as
sistency between the existence of this alleged grievance and the progress of the Colony, shown by statisties, during last quarter of a century. It is
the
not in the usual course of. events for the population of a Colony labouring under the curse of official oppression " to rise from 121, 979 to 246,000 in the course of 25 years, for the
revenue