for possible intervention by any foreign power in Kwang Tung province, Instruct Her Majesty's Consul at Canton to communicate with the Viceroy.
a copy of the correspondence is attached to my dispatch No 138
Circulated 17781 this date, and on receipt of your telegram of the 3d instant informing me that Her Majesty's Government approved of my taking the necessary steps to secure the safety of the German Mission, I informed them that if any real and imminent danger was impending they would receive protection on application to the officer commanding the troops at Sam Chun.
I at the same time requested Major General Gascoigne to instruct Colonel W. G. O'Gorman, Commanding the troops at Sam Chun, that in the event of application being made to him by the German missions, he must satisfy himself that there was actual and immediate danger of attack in which case he would afford protection.
2. The letter of the Rev. J. Schaub, dated 2nd June, attached to my dispatch No 138 of this date, has an important bearing on the Taipo Hui incident as it shows that the people of the Tung Kun district openly assembled to march down to Taipo Hui for the attack upon our troops. It is impossible that all those preparations could have