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dispersed on approach of the troops. Several Europeans had been veolently

assaulted by Chinamen, and the police had been also savagely attacked.

There being a general feeling of m security, I have, at the request of the Governor in Council, mounted a Guard of 100 men in the Chinese quarter of the town ever since

the 3rd Instant, and have taken.

other military precautions

suitable to the

occasion).

that the first appearance

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It is currently reported

the troops and the precautions

snice taken, have defeated the

plans of the rioters, which

aimed at the setting

fire

and plundering the residences and warehouses of the Europeans. as at fanton last September

But I am

not in.

a positio

to judge of there is any form. - dation for such

belief

I enclose for information

of His Royal stighness copies

of the more

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locally

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