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Enclosure
Dear Sir Frederick,
Hongkong, 24th. July, 2018.
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Rea! 6 SEP 09
*FATSHAN INCIDENT' In reply to your note
of yesterday the incidents connected with our negotiations and
the position at the moment are as follows:-
The Self Government Society apparently had
in the beginning the support of the Canton and Amoy shippers
both here and in the Philippines. It was through an Amoy
Shipper that we started to negotiate with the Self Government
Society. In this we were unsuccessful, for having obtained
their original demands they evaded coming to a complete and
final settlement, obviously "fishing" for means to gain "face"
at the expense of the British and Portuguese Consuls. They
tried in various ways to gain their object but unsuccessfully,
as both Consuls stood firm and refused to recognise them.
The Amoy shippers in Hongkong at this point
began to tire of the self imposed task of mediators; they
resented the Self Government Society's refusal to accept the
settlement they had been at so much trouble to arrange with us
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and which they considered fair. Ultimately, apparently,
Amoy men quarrelled with the Self Government Society and
approached