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8.

After preliminary remarks, M. Leung On proposed that the Military Picket should be

removed from the Tung Wa Hospital -hall the following day; that the Director of the Hospital and their -friends should hold a public

meeting; after

ter which

someone

would address the crowd to be

assembled at the Hospital gates,

ار

and use such arguments

- might be agreed

on at the

meeting to induce the

to their work in

go

9.

dot

onen

peace.

to

I objected to this on-

three grounds, namely:-

1: It was not a matter that

in

in

concerned the Sung We

any way Hospital Directors as

such;

2: No public meeting would be held without the permission of

the Government; and

3 : The collecting of a crowd any part of the city was not a thing that could be thought of,

long as the publie pence

as

disturbed.

10.

was

It was then proposed to issue a Froclamation in the name

of the Tung Wa Directorate. This I

said would amount to

an

the

abdication on the part of Government; and the assumption

of governmental power by the _

Corporation