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प्रान
R. S. Gundry, Esq.,
CHINA ASSOCIATION
HONGKONG.
Honorary Secretary,
China Association,
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Rea? 3 AUG 00
22nd. June 1900.
London.
Sir:-
1.
My Committee desire to place before you,
for the information of the General Corrittee,
their
views on the present position of affairs in China,
especially as to the position in South China where the
apparent apathy and indifference of Her Majesty's
Government to the protection of british interests is
leaving France a free hand and an unrestricted field
and
of operations.
2.
The movement in the North of China is dis-
Sinctly a movement for the expulsion, by a general up-
rising of the people, of all foreigners and foreign
It is clearly fostered and supported by
appliances.
the Government of China which, in the hands of those
who at the moment are exercising the supreme control,
is