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Greaves that I was very loth to identify myself in any way
with the Solf Government Society and that I personally
strongly objected to t'e proposed payment of compensation.
I said, however, that, in order to facilitate as much as
possible a settlement of this unfortunate dispute, I was
prepared to ask your permission to attend a function of
the kind suggested, if the Viceroy's and Portuguese Con-
sul's presence could be secured.
I made it quite clear to Hr. Greaves that I
would be no party to any arrangement which involved the
dismissal of the Captain of the ship or the reopening of
the case against the watchman, and lir. Greaves assured mo
that the firm would not agree to those demands. A fow
days later the Governor of Hongkong, showed me copies of
some correspondence which had passed between himself and
Mr. Law regarding the "Fatshan" case, and among the papers
I saw a letter from the firm to the Self Governmont Society,
dated some two weeks before Mr. Greaves approached me, in
which a definite promise was made to dismiss the Captain!
I immediately informed är. Creaves that, under
the