seem to have known of. They were there for merited dismissal from the Force, and it would have been dangerous if they had been dismissed and allowed them to remain in the Colony. Many of them were for the most part from the Tungkoon district in the neighbouring province, the natives of which are the most turbulent amongst the population of Kwangtung,
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and it would have been lax if these dismissed Policemen had created difficulties for the Government by intimidating their successors in office, or even by inciting their clansmen to disturbances such as they took a prominent part in in March 1894.
32. One of them fled the Colony. Assuming detectives were used,
Of the remainder were taken to ...