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Sir,
Viceroy T'an to Cousul Mansfield.
May 14th., 1899.
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I am in receipt of your despatch stating
that numbers of local rowdies on the Chinese side of the boundary
are about to make au incursion into British territory, and request-
ing me to take steps for the preservation of order.
I at once ordered Lieutenant Colonel Shib
Yu-shan (4) to despatch by steamer able military officers
in command of 800 men of the I (2) Battalion to take up their
quarters in the neighbourhood of Samchun to preserve order. I also
ordered the San On and Tung Kun Magistrates respectively to take
action and report. Of this I informed you in my reply to your
despatch. I am now in receipt of the following report from the
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Sen On Magistrate, Chao: "On May 6th., I proceeded with all
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speed to Samchun, and on the next day I visited Sha T'ou and
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tp lib Huang Kang. I supponed in due order the gentry of Samchun, Pu Ko
and Sha f'ou and Huang Kang (names given) and carefully questioned
them