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No.26
sir,
CAETOF,
12th Kovember 1995.
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In continuation of my despatch No.25 of the
1st Movember last, I have the Lonour to report that
the alarm which filled the Officiel mind when the plot
Go seize the city was discovered at the end of last
ronth has now subsided, and that the Provinci al
Government seems disposed to rost satisfied with its
good fortune in having forestalled a serious rising.
There is a general impression among the officials that
& searching investigation would put the local Govern-
ment in possession of inconvenient information, and
compel them to follow it up with such drastic measures
of retribution as would probably precipitate the
rebellion which has for the prosent been averted,
In all, three men have been executed for
complicity in the movement; these confessed to having
accepted scrvice under the ringleader Sun Wen, and
their part of the work was to hire premises in Canton
for the reception of arms and explosives. In their
confession ticase rom stated that the plot conceived by
Sun Won, whom the authoritico look upon as tho Chief
conspirator, Was to capture the city, and then roduce
this province and the provinces of Kwangsi, Junnan and
Fuhkien, and establish an independent Kingdom; but no
importance com be attached to the words extracted from
prisoners under torture, and probably their whole con-
fossion was morely an acquiescence in revelations
suggested by the examiners.
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