CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8] — Page 423

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Governor was good enough

- peruse I have the honor to make the following further report. 2. The Expression "Blockade of Hougtong" and the feeling of vcritation Engendered

Engendered in the sunds of merchants here both Foreigin

and native were hardly to be accounted

for by the presence. in the vicinity

of

our waters of a number of

Chinese Revenue Cruisers Employed

in the legitimate lot of protecting

their Customis dubs-

3. On the one hand the

merchant's alleged that Commerce

was crippled by the frequent

detentions of

ared

harassing

searches made on the native craft

prequenting this pork,

"

and that

the

"squeezes were exacted from

various funk rasters on pain of Confiscation - Sis Brooke Rolution

on the other hand denied that the

chmiere had

sending

Appatch of Seein

ben

1874. Onga 86.

other

any

object in their Cruisers near Hongthong

than for " Collecting the duties

of

which heretofore the Government had been defrauded =

4. It was almost expossible to oblain from the Chinese Zaders who were more immediatel

any

immediated concerned etatement es suffrecentl

definite and positive

as to the

wo

completely relied on, but

th