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losure No. 1 in Mr. Fox's No. 78, Gomeral Series, of July, 12k 1909.-

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Mr. Fox to Viceroy Chang.

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(AUG 26 1909)

Your Excellency,

H.B.M. Consulate-General,

Canton, July 8th. 1909.

I yesterday received a report from Mr.

F. Grove, Engineer-in-Chief of the Canton-Kowloon Railway

(Chinese Section), stating that as a result of false

rumours concerning the actions of the railway' engineers

employed in the construction of the line in the Tsent

Chlong and lung. Kuan districte the country people had

lately assumed an attitude of violent hostility to the

railway and to those engaged in its construction, in many

cases preventing by force the continuation of the work,

destroying bridge found tions with dynamite,

the ngineers' quarters and oven going so far as to murder

ons of the Railway Company's Chinese servants.

attacking

The local officials, whose duty it was to afford

the constructional staff adequate protection, had done

little or nothing to dispel these rumours, punish the

guilty