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nment House.
4th. November,
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I regret to inform Your Excellency that on
Sunday and Monday last this Colony was the scene of an organised riot having for its object the destruction of the shops and goods of Chinese vendors of Japanese articles. From the enclosed copy of a despatch which I have addressed to the Consul-General at Canton Your Excellency will see that the affair was apparent- -ly organisad from that City with such secrecy and skill as to have taken the Police of this Colony completely by surprise. The riot attained such dimensions that I was under the necessity of calling out troops to restore order.
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I leave to Your Excellmcy's discretion
the nature of the representations which you may judge it best to make to the Chinese Government as to what has occurred. I need not point out that the selection of Fongkong for the scene of the outrage is calculated and was possibly intended to jeopardise British relations with J pan, while the originators at Canton hoped to evade the consequences which might have arison had the affair occurred in that City. In this connection I have the honour to enclose copy of a Despatch I have a dressed to His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio. I have the honour to r west that Your Excellency will in the strongest terms, urge upon the Chinese Government the imperative necessity for taking fully adequate measures for preventing the recurrence of an act` so prejudicial to the good relations existing batwoen
Ria Britannic vajesty's Finister,
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