Am 21 in so
Sheung Shui
712
(Near Fan Ling)
26th April 1899,
Your Excellency.
I left P'ing Shan yesterday morning at 8:30 a.m.
and reached Sheung Shui at 3 p.m.
All the villages along the route received us with crackers and had the white flag of submission flying in front of their villages. The elders in each village came out to receive us and I told them in each instance that
all good people would be protected and should return to
their work as usual and that disturbers of the peace
would be severely dealt with. I requested them to co-
operate with the Government Authorities in bringing bad
characters to justice.
The elders of the small villages expressed a hope that they would be specially protected from the bullying
they had been experiencing from large villages and I
informed them that protection would be afforded to all,
whether strong or weak.
The following are the villages through which we
passed and at which we were received by the elders:
1. Sha Po in the Kam Tui District.
2. Pok Wat
3. Chuk Un
4. Mai Po
5. San Tin in the Sheung U Division (including the
villages of Tso Tau and Tok Ma Chau)
6. Lo Tsz Tin in the Sheung U Division.
7. Sheung Shui
8. Shek U
9. Fan Ling
The two last places were visited after we had
reached...