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was made in Mr. Combe's memorandum, was a precautionary
measure due to a temporary panic amongst the Shemien Guard
(Chinese). The sailors were withdrawn the same evening.
Although the Yamen of the Governor General was burnt
down almost in its entirety, the one section which escaped
was the Secretariat, which contained all the provincial
archives.
(Signed)
I have &c.,
J. W. Jamieson.
Consul-General.
THE OUTBREAK IN CANTON OF APRIL 27TH TO 30TH,
1911.
There can be no doubt that the outbreak of members
of a Secret Society in Canton on April 27th was the
premature explosion of a very carefully laid mine.
Evidence had not been wanting, even before the murder
of the Acting Tartar General early in the month, that
some deeply laid plot was on foot aimed at the re-
presentatives of the Manchu dynasty in Canton, (the
Viceroy though not a Manchu being included in the cat-
egory as the official most to be feared). It is most
probable that April 26th was the day originally chosen
for carrying out the plot, and that the report spread
abroad that the 29th (the 1st day of the Chinese 4th
moon) was the appointed day was merely a blind. It
was only the fact that the expected reinforcements for
the revolutionaries failed to arrive, that delayed
the outbreak.
Throughout April runours were prevalent
as to the imminence of a disturbance, and though the
revolutionaries