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The "arrangement" that will be come to is patent

to anyone; a nominal fine will be imposed on Luklao and they will be told not to do it again, and the foreigners

will have "lost face" once more.

The arrangement I should make would be to order the Lungkiang to go back that way, and follow her in a Gun- boat and unless some such sort of thing is done there will

be a repetition of these cutrages. I am certain that a little force judiciously applied would soon put a stop

to all this,

Nothing has yet been done to the people at Shuk-Wan who stoned the "Sandpiper", and it is safe to say that if the matter is left to His Excellency the

acting Viceroy Tak nothing will be done at Luklao,

!

I have, etc.

(Sd) Godfrey Webster,

Lieut. & Commander.

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