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Police Magistrate King with a request for deportation and we shall thus be in a position to rid the settlement of a great quantity of undesirables, It is a very easy matter for Germans
to sow discontent among the watchmen class by bribing their employees as a preliminary and then getting them to disseminate sedition after. Captain Barrett, A.S.P. Shanghai, has been
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good enough to have the German Consulate watchmen watched and on four days other watchmen have gone there, four at a time on two occasions and they stayed just over a quarter of an hour and four occasions odd numbers for five minutes, He has also had 12 Ferry Road, Consul Neys old house, watched and pals called in there but on isolated occasione. I have come to the conclusion that Pootoo is to be used as a distributing base for arms and ammunition for the use of Sikhs, or rather natives of India, to kick up trouble in Hong Kong, Singapore and India. I will give you a few pointe which lead me to suppose this. Arsenal here has been turning out about 25 rifles a day and I cannot for love or money find out where they have been going.
The Central and North China Press Packing Company, Carlowitz and Co., had a fire last week, and in the godown was over $100000 worth of Salt Petre and some acid, I cannot find out what, which when it got water on it or flowed out of the godown cut a deep channel in the granite step of the godown, Salt Petre ought not to be stored in a godown within the
Settlement, without a licence, and Carlowitz and Co. had not
procured one. The insurance on the building becomes
invalidated over the storage of hazardous goods and I got sir
Everard Fraser to write to the Insurance Company about it.
Carlowitz are also importing alcohol from Java on a large scale
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