GOPI
Subject.
› Operations on the
› Chinese Hinterland.
C.0.
16377
RECO
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REC 24 JUL 19
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Taipo,
93
6th. May, 1899.
Sir,
His Excellency
The General Officer, Commanding
· China and Hong Kong.
I have the honour to submit to you my report upon
the operations connected with the taking over the newly leased
Territory, briefly alluding to circumstances preceding the
date when hostilities actually commenced.
Your Excellency remembers the first incident at Taipo
Hui when the Hon. F. H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police
(with 9 Sikhs) was attacked by the villagers on erecting some
matsheds, and narrowly escaped being murdered. You, with Staff,
proceeded to the scene of the outrage in H. M. S. Whiting
on the night of the 3rd of April arriving at 9 a.m. to find
the matsheds in ashes and that Mr. May had left. The measures
then taken by you and the Hon. J. A. Stewart Lockhart, Colonial
Secretary, to pacify the villagers and inspire them with con-
fidence in British Justice and protection must be fresh in
your