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Li Yan Clan cal?
I am not speaking of the present time. I ar`speaking
what I am afraid will result.
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He has not seen any of those results yet?
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No.
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But you are afraid that the Commission sitting will pus!
a stop to bribery, and therefore that the Inspectors will be very strict because they are not making money
for themselves. Is that what you mean? That is a very
serious charge against the Inspectora.
Yes, and that they will come and trouble us besides. When you say trouble you, do you mean to say they will
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call upon you to do things you are not legally called
upon to do?
Well, if a thing is done properly, they will say that
it is not done properly.
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And therefore that they will exceed their duty in order
to make it uncomfortable for the Chinese ?
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Yes.
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Now, Mr Li, of course you say you are afraid of that.
I presume that a man of your age and position would not
make that statement unless you thought you had some
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grounds for doing it.
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Well, that is what I am afraid of. Alright now, what I want to know is, what is your experience of those Sanitary Inspectors, to make you
fear that those men would act in such a way. Do you
know that they have been receiving brites wholesale, and secondly not bean sesing that the regulations of
the law have been enforced in the past ↑
some
Well, this is what I have seen. I will mention one instance of what I have seen with my own eyes,
conduct of his that was not good. I was at Yaumati,
You talk of whom ?
Of an Inspector. I.was there. At five o'olcok I came
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