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I understand that the family of ity. Philips la in straitened circumstances, and that the Company have already submitted on their behalf a claim through the Forsign Office for £ 10,000. As to this, I await your instructions. It is unfortunate that My, Philips should have persisted in making the journey by sampen in spite of all the advice that was given him; and it is also not yet clear to what entegory of bandits the murderers to- longed.
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I have advised the Asiatis Petroleum Company that, should they contemplate sending a foreigs nimber of their staff to Kwangsi as successor to fr. Philips, he should, in view of the disturbed conditions and anti- foreign agitation in the province, be a man with local experience and a imowledge of Chinese, and that he should
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