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were not purely voluntary payments ? Well, at the feast time it was voluntary, but not at

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So the majority of the payments were really forced upon

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Some were that way.

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The bulk of them ?

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Suppose you did not pay, what would be the result 9/2404 Well, they would report us to the Doctor. Then we would

never get on properly.

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Do you mean to say that you would not be able to carry out your contract with the Government ?

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Yes, we wanted to give up the contract to the Governmen but the Government would not agree.

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these large sums of money, so it could be possible for

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Well, that was it. That was the intention. Well, Leung In, what have you to say as regards that

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you to go on with the contract ?

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(Leung In) I say the same as him.

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(Loung In) Yes. Well, he is right.

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Now, Ko Shang and Leung In, I am very much obliged to

you for coming here, and telling us your explanat ions. It is only very unfortunate that you did not do this before. The first time I sent for both of you, you would not tell us anything, and you gave us a lot of

unnecessary, trouble, and you gave yourselves a lot of

unnecessary trouble.

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It was very hard for us.

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I quite understand that. We are here trying to help th Chinese, we are not asking a lot of idle questions. We