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were allowed to usurp the functions of the Chinese Governach
in Canton.
I urged His Excellency to assert himself and put a
stop to what everyone now realised was an entirely
fictitious agitation. I told "is Excellency that a means
of dealing effectually with the Society's leaders had now
been placed in his hands by the discovery that Hung Kung
Yen, the man who had taken a prominent part in the recent
agitation and in the previous affairs of the "atmi Naru*
and the "Paul Beau" incidents, was a Portuguese subject,
whose arrest on a charge of inciting to a brouch of the
pence was now contemplated by the Portuguese Consul. The
knowledge that this man was one of that unpopular class of
people who practically enjoyed a dual nationality would,
I was sure, discredit him, and indirectly the Society, in
the eyes o the people of Canton.
The Viceroy stated that the disturbance on the
previous day had taken him completely by surprise, and ho
assured me that he had already taken effective measures
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