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प्रान

R. S. Gundry, Esq.,

CHINA ASSOCIATION

HONGKONG.

Honorary Secretary,

China Association,

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Rea? 3 AUG 00

22nd. June 1900.

London.

Sir:-

1.

My Committee desire to place before you,

for the information of the General Corrittee,

their

views on the present position of affairs in China,

especially as to the position in South China where the

apparent apathy and indifference of Her Majesty's

Government to the protection of british interests is

leaving France a free hand and an unrestricted field

and

of operations.

2.

The movement in the North of China is dis-

Sinctly a movement for the expulsion, by a general up-

rising of the people, of all foreigners and foreign

It is clearly fostered and supported by

appliances.

the Government of China which, in the hands of those

who at the moment are exercising the supreme control,

is