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willingness to consider their representations when that -pressure was removed.

12.

The posting of these

C

On

the

notices took place morning of the 25th eApril.

on the same

day

But early and before their purport

could have become known, the Superintendent of Police

reported to me on

orally

at this

house that the affair which

in

had been increasing gravity for several days.

was

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was reaching an acute stage.

et

of great mob collected on

two

was

of the principal streets stopping all the traffic, by threate, and in

and was

one one

Two

Cases

by actual

violence, preventing the

jinrichsha-coolice and

other labourers from

following their

He moreover

occupations.

informed

Me

that, according to information

received by him, on which he could, thoroughly rely,

(though

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