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affair was taking, r.Fox consented to hold an entiry
into the matter. The result of this enquiry a to show
that there was no reliable evidence that the deceased
had been kicked by the Portuguese watchman and no
eign 'at, even if he had been kicked, his death 2.8
caused by such treatment.
r.Fox accordingly would not
hand the watchman over to be tried by the For' ipuece
Coneul neral, but stated that it was open to the
Chinese Authorities to prefer a okarge of anelauek fog
against him in the Portuguese Consular Court.
Instead of allaying the agitation, the resu14 62
the enquiry was to give a fresh impetus to the anti-for-
eign movement which, fanned by the well-known "Self
Government Society" began to assume an alarming enn
plexion. Abusive placards, denouncing Great Britain
and is "ajesty's Consul General in unmoasured tomis,
vere posted all over the city, meetings were
at
which the speakers advocated a general boycott of
British gleamers and the local press published munerous
articles of an inflammatory character.
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