CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 93

Government to prevent

a leamenc

of the disturbances directed against Foreigners in China

Stated that the ma

the telegram

many

disturbances

which had occurred affecting Missionaries and others during the present year were from the first considered by the Igamen

been

to be the acts of Secret Societies

and that this had now

to be the case, for that

proved

026

12th instant the Customs

the 12

authorities

at Shanghai seized

35 boxes of Foreign Rifles

being clandestinely

which were

The arms

passed

from Hongkong and

Cam

werk

Consigned

Consigned to a British Subject

(whore telegram

90

name was given in the

as

Magung) occupying

the position of Assistant

Commissioner

of

Customs

at

Chinking. Sti's baggage on

being searched

was found to

Contain five pounds of a very

Shong explosive, and he was

under arrest to

Conveyed Shanghae

to take his trial.

there. He arrected that an Englishman named East may had bought the

for

འ

Secret Society at Chinkiang, and that another Englishmass

named Jisan.

and six otter

Foreigners