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7.

5.

The Jung Wa Hospital

Committee is a body corporate within this Colony, They

are not

responsible either to this Government, or to the Chinese Governement for the application of the money

which has been subscribed.

They

are responsible only

the subscribers, any whom might

to

one of

might move the

Supreme Court to restrain threw;

or bring

air

action for breach

of trust in case of the improper application of the fund. Living in British Territory

under the

protection of the British

Sovernment, the members of

the Committee are

threatened

by the Provincial Freacuser of Cauton with the object of.. obtaining possession of a large

of money; and the. Chairman is so alarmed by

the

the threats that he firet endeavou

to resign his post and

failing

in this he naturally appeals to the British Government for

protection to which, under the

he is

circumstances, i think, fully entitled. It seems to me that the peition of the incuber

· of the Tung Wastospital is a most difficult one. Most of then have property and relatives the mainland and they - well know what it is to disobey the orders of the IMandarinşat

on

the same time to surrender the

would be to commit a

money grave breach of tush

The Acting Registrar

6.

General informo

we that the

action of the Provincial freasurer

Wa

of Canton towards the Tring We

Hospital Committee is,

is generally

Known here and that the

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