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I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your
despatch No.12 of February 26th in which you asume that ro- presentations implying a dereliction of duty on your part have been addressed by me to the Secretary of State in reference to
the recent riots in Canton.
The despatch in question dealt with the matter solely from the point of view of this Goverment. I judged from the copy of your report to the Minister which you courteously trans- mitted to me un er date of 16th February, 1910 that the undor- lying cause of the disturbances was obscure; that" the soldiery had been stirred up by agents of revolutionary societies"; that the Viceroy had intimated his inability to protect the Forei¡n residents at Tung Shan and elsewhere and displayed great appro- hension regarding their safety; and that the force of loyal troops was not very greatly superior to that of the rebols. Had the latter gained the day I imagine that you will agree with se that a serious situation would have aricen, involving possible danger to the lives of British Engineers along the Railway, and rendering it highly inadvisable for European travellers to
proceed to Canton.
In these circumstances I hold the view, that the
earliest
His Britannic Majesty's Consul General,
CANTON.