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I must know what the Revolutions were. to be before I could consent to do so.
Jt Canthic then came to see me at
my
Chambers and in the cara-
of our conversation I told him that if the Resolutions were confined to one of spons pating with the sufferers and one of indignation at the atrocities I would
take the chair but not otherwise. He
perfectly understood and promised to
on that.
arrange
the
meching
fooking.
I next saw the public notice which was cira loted all over the Colony and which pan as follows:-
is oor
Wday
A public meeting will be held " in the City Stall at 12 " (Thursday) August 8, 1895 to allow : the Community of Hong Kong
opportunity of expressing its sorrow
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ar
" and indignation of the mossacre
"1
of British subjects at Ruchany!
No further particulars and no -aguida of the meeting were furnished
to
my
arrival at the Hall
was told, I think by Ith Cantlie, that
Messrs. Jackson
and Dodwell would.
undertake the first Revolution and
Messrs. Francis and Maconachie the
second and I.
that he should be asked to addressthe
I arranged with the Riship
meeking behseen the hoo Revolutions. In answer to several gentlemen who
mu
meeting
Cors =
spoke to use before the moured I said that there were to be
too simple Revolutions in the termwin_ dicated in the public notice and nothing else.
whe
"Everything went off on the lines I had been led to expect in the conclusion of Mr. Francis speech
my astonishment he produced
when to
which was a
paper containing a long resolution subsequently adopted. I
selling
stopped
d him
live that I was
surprised that he had formulated
Resolution and
a long
ashing if it
to
would