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regained by the cancellation of banishments) and acquire a greatly increased prestige. All these facts are on record in reports forwarded by Sir J. Jordan to the Foreign Office and in despatches addressed by myself to Your Lordship, but I have given a very brief resume of them for the purpose of recalling the main outlines in their proper perspective.
6.
Until the last day or two I was under the impression that the matter had ceased to have any importance, that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire had paid a sum of money to the relatives of the deceased with the concurrence and co-operation of the Consul, and that the Boycott, whether of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire or of Japan was rapidly being forgotten, and trade was assuming its normal course. On the 9th instant, however Mr. Fox (Acting Consul-General) who had called on me by appointment regarding other matters, mentioned incidentally that practically a deadlock had been reached in the matter of the Boycott of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and he was unable to do anything more. Mr. Law happened to dine with me the following evening (10th instant) and I questioned him on the subject. The state of things he disclosed to me I regard as extremely serious. On the morning of the 12th.
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regained by the cancellation of banishments) and acquire a
greatly increased prestige. All these facts are on record
in reports forwarded by Sir J. Jordan to the Foreign
Office and in despatches addressed by myself to Your Lord-
-ship, but I have given a very brief resume of them for
the purpose of recalling the main outlines in their proper
perspective.
6.
Until the last day or two I was
under the impression that the matter had ceased to have any
importance, that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire had paid a
sum of money to the relatives of the deceased with the
concurrence and co-operation of the Consul, and that the
Boycott, whether of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire or of
Japan was rapidly being forgotten, and trade was assuming
its normal course. On the 9th. instant, however Mr. Fox
(Acting Consul-General) who had called on me by appoint-
•
-ment regarding other matters, mentioned incidentally
that practically a deadlock had been reached in the matter
of the Boycott of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and he was
unable to do anything more. Mr. Law happened to dine with
me the following evening (10th. instant) and I questioned
him on the subject. The state of things he disclosed to
me I regard as extremely serious. On the morning of the
12th.
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