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Mr. Fox to Viceroy Chang.
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(AUG 26 1909)
Your Excellency,
H.B.M. Consulate-General,
Canton, July 8th. 1909.
I yesterday received a report from Mr.
F. Grove, Engineer-in-Chief of the Canton-Kowloon Railway
(Chinese Section), stating that as a result of false
rumours concerning the actions of the railway' engineers
employed in the construction of the line in the Tsent
Chlong and lung. Kuan districte the country people had
lately assumed an attitude of violent hostility to the
railway and to those engaged in its construction, in many
cases preventing by force the continuation of the work,
destroying bridge found tions with dynamite,
the ngineers' quarters and oven going so far as to murder
ons of the Railway Company's Chinese servants.
attacking
The local officials, whose duty it was to afford
the constructional staff adequate protection, had done
little or nothing to dispel these rumours, punish the
guilty