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last the Viceroy had issued a proclamation ordering all
persona to aw it peaceably the result of the formal trial
and forbidding any person from creating any agitation or
causing ill-disposed people to stir up public feeling
and disturb the peace. For this reason no mosting had
been called to discuss the cuse for sovorel mon hs pat.
They had now been quietly waiting for a long time and the
position had become unbonrable. They had therefore boon
compelled to invite their compatriots to th t mooting.
There was a movemet of sympathy and indignation throughout
the audio0.
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The communications received from Chinese mor»
chants abroad were then road. (Most of these have already
been published). When the despatch containing the slanders
from the Portuguese Consul had been read, together with
the Viceroy's reply (both of which have likowise born
publishod) the chairmen rose to speak.
He said that at the time of the murder of the
man Ho Ya T'ing on the S.8. "Fatshan", not only did all
the