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the cuines committed at Rucheng; its anger and indiquation

indignation at the criminal connivance of the Chinese Government and

of

its

Officers in

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this and in other recent attacks on

missionaries and on mission property,

-disgust at the

and it

apathy and

ment

indifference of the British Governme and at its failure to recognise the - gravity of the sitration and to take adequate measures for the, protection

of its o

of

subjects

and for the punishment

their murderers. This

further of opcrsion that

mecting

money

persation alone is a wholly inade.

-quate redress for outrages of such a

character and that the position demands swift and stern measures on

of the British

Government.

the part

It was the desire of the meet- ing that the second pesolution should

be

communicated to the Right Sto= nourable the Secretary of State by tele=

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am

gram.

At the request of the meeting

I am forwarding a copy of the st resolution to the Right Reverend Bishop

Burdon.

His Rexcellency,

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I have 7.

Por Fielding Clarke .

Sir W. Robinson, K. O. M.G.

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