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H ̧a.M. Consĥlate
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End February, 191⁄2,
With reference to my despaten Ho. 3 of January 23rd I have the honour to report that General Li Chishen (
} arrived at Hoihow on Jammary 26th and is now the highest anthority in the Island,
None of the officials and military offigerd of the previous administration found in Haibow juve been executed, but large numbers of the old trodde acattered in various directions into the interior,
looting and burning as they went. They are now being followed up by the Canton army, paport has it thết
a serions stand is being made in the neighbourhood
of Lanko ( i to the weat, where a Cantonese', forse is saidīto be surrounded,
Kachek near the East comat, where there is an American Presbyterian Hission station still occupied by American missionaries in dežianeo ef the advice of myself and the American Consul General st Canton, has been occupied peacefully by the Cantones, On Landay January 31st however, after a meeting held in an anti- Christian school adjoiningetho
obispeund, the
orowd flocked into the Timiće pompound, tore up boundary stones of piece of land grymkid to thức Mission by danerai Peng Bél-gid, tore up the American flag and beat some of the Chinesh assistantu`in the hospital. Bķe incident fu being taken up direétly
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