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making

Humalves understanding, the populace understand, the

Ual state of the late, namely that

those chineer officros

anly

on

sufferance.

ane

The

there

Consequence

is that those affieros indirectly,

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if not dirretty, keep alive state of animosity against the allics, and hold out a perpetual

of

1 future vengeance to the Chinese inhabitants who might

Minaer

atherwise be well-disposed to the

Allies, while at the same

tink

they

they deny the humiliating fact of the accupation of the city by Loreign troops.

Such a state of things must

be productive of mischief not only in Canton and its neighbourhood, but even at Pakire when it is

most essential that the Chinese fount should be made to see that the allies are sale masters of Canton.

at

H.M?

For these casons Hill?

Soont consider that the present

Mixed Gourt of Canton, Composed

a

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