CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10] — Page 431

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42719.

and enlist to fight against the French About a hundred of thour are reported

· gone this morning to Cauton.

to have gone.

The offer Triads in the Colony are said. to have been encouraged by promises, not only of pardon but of larger

of large rewards to do everything in their power to injure and destroy at jerah ships of Bar

and Messageries steamers in the Harbour of Hong Kong. The origin of whole of the trouble was no doubt the proclamation of the High Authorities

of

Aruston, of which

which a

enclosed in

-copy

was

the

- my despatak N = 336 of

26th ultime . Sir H. Parkos telegraphed

to

lo

78738

very.

to we on 3.2 instant that a

decrer had been published:

satisfactory

in the Peking Gazette consuring

the

High Canton Authorities for issuing

a prodcunation of a nearly similas nature inciting the Chinese in -- Singapore and Penang against the French, I immediately had this information translated and placarded over the Town, but Chinese, as a rule,

prefer to believe instelligence emanating

from

native cources rather than

any

etatements to the contrary made by

Europeaus . I have, in reply,

informed Sir H. Parkes both by

telegram.