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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 ↑

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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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