CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 655

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Precis

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Mr. Whitehead's letter to

"The Times."

Paragraph!. Mr Whitehead begins with a

pathetic appeal to the British Public against official oppression in Hongkong.

"There is a curious incon-

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sistency between the existence of this alleged grievance and the progress of the Colony, shown by statisties, during last quarter of a century. It is

the

not in the usual course of. events for the population of a Colony labouring under the curse of official oppression " to rise from 121, 979 to 246,000 in the course of 25 years, for the

revenue