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I have the honour to request that you will cause a

proclumtion to be lasiod, explaining to the public that

full enquiry has been hold, and that it has both found

that this mon did not dis a violent, but a natural, death.

Tho ispus of such a proclamation is in my opinion

esaontial in view of the many unfounded and exyporated

rumours, mhich, through the medium of the Chinese

nowspapers, hava during the last few days disturbed the

minds of the people of Canton,

in par-

In this connection I beg to draw the surious attention

of Y.E. to the action of the Canton notspavors,

ticular the "wo Shih Pao*, in printing detailed stato-

ments of witnesses before the onquiry was held, and after

the enquiry, although their roporters mero presont and

heard all that was unid, publishing inucourate and entirely

one-sided reports of the proceedinrs.

In all Western Countries such conduct on the part of

newspaper aditore would moet with severo punishemt,

and, as I understand the Fress Regulations recently issued

by the

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