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with a

ship for foreigners

localities, who have in

intrigued great sumber of people, whom they

enticed by high pay,

or under the

pretext of getting them work or

providing

have

them with employment.

When these people

cice

get.

on

board (French chips) they are forced

to become soldier and are placed in

the

van so that

that they form

the great majority of the killed and wounded. In addition to the above (persons) there

aild

are cruel-hearted, treacherous

people who out of a a covetous desire for lange gerius volunteer their services. These people may be considered still more abandoned. With regard to the - of the past, the writer could not

ack o

bear to enter into a detailed account

of them. But, to contime, workmen, who have been engaged in repairing

ships

even when the ships

of the every have been defeated and damaged, secretly repower them, thereby, enabling the jaded to recover their

strength, and the weak to become

strong; they assist the

enemy,

aud

show theuwelves unmindfeel of their

comulry. Could

any

oru be more

".

detestable than they ? It is highly

necessary

that

a

strictly prohibitory

prodaviation should be isured. You,

inhabitants

along

the coast as well

should

as workmen engaged in repairing ships, and therefore hereby notified for your information that you thoroughly comprehend the distication between China and a Foreign Country and show a devoted regard for your fatherland . If you enlist on the side of,

and thus render services to the everity,

this