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the cuines committed at Rucheng; its anger and indiquation
indignation at the criminal connivance of the Chinese Government and
of
its
Officers in
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this and in other recent attacks on
missionaries and on mission property,
-disgust at the
and it
apathy and
ment
indifference of the British Governme and at its failure to recognise the - gravity of the sitration and to take adequate measures for the, protection
of its o
of
subjects
and for the punishment
their murderers. This
further of opcrsion that
mecting
money
persation alone is a wholly inade.
-quate redress for outrages of such a
character and that the position demands swift and stern measures on
of the British
Government.
the part
It was the desire of the meet- ing that the second pesolution should
be
communicated to the Right Sto= nourable the Secretary of State by tele=
grau
am
gram.
At the request of the meeting
I am forwarding a copy of the st resolution to the Right Reverend Bishop
Burdon.
His Rexcellency,
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Por Fielding Clarke .
Sir W. Robinson, K. O. M.G.
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