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City in China, and was so cleverly and secretly planned as to be a complete surprias to this Colony.
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I leave it to your consideration and diɛ- -cration how far you may judge it to be advisable to communicate the details of which I have informed you to the Japanese Covernment. I should he sorry to inflame the feeling in that country against China but at the same time I consider it -
- to be of grant importance that
I am sure Your Excellency will
the Japanese Government should be made fully aware that the origin and cause of this disturbance did not emanate from this British Colony. The participation of Canton emissaries la al- -ready reported in the local press and the Japanese Conaul will no doubt advine his Government of the whole circumstances so
far as he may know them. No Japanese were attacked.
I have the honour to be,
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Your Excell ́ney's most
obedient servant,
AJ
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