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their demand to transfer Captain Lloyd. I sympathise with Mr.

Fox and wish I was in the same happy position as he is to make

terms. We must just be patient and await results, but our

position has certainly improved since the opening of the boy-

-cott. I think our salvation has been the split between the

Canton and Amoy sections, and our success in that respect lies

in the fact that we appeared to the Amoy men to be reasonable

in our efforts to compromise; had we stood out as both you and

Mr. Fax counselled, and as I should have dearly liked to do,

am sure we should now be in the clutches of a serious and

extensive boycott on all our Southern lines and wherever the

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Cantonese and Amoy men could exert influence. We have been able

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to avert that I am thankful to say, but at a price, a price

I would never had paid had I received the requisite support from

the British Government in an unequal contest.

I hope you may see your way to speak strong-

-ly on the subject of the Self Government Society to the coming

and going Viceroys; it may be providential opportunity for Your

Excellency to sow good seed which may help to kill off these

pernicious and dangerous anti-foreign Societies both here and

elsewhere in China before they cause untold mischief and

suffering.

I have heard unofficially from Canton that

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