CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 510

„dre caigut 10 aastal Larsmol),P8 .all deduqueh

fil, MS Hampus 008. Mausta int it in sustalen

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ekao "runodal" vald

* ptism boyslob svar i

Jamsoed visweg von Illmu medtem

cried to med sníð of a3 $ud:

oba od od boged ovud i eammood

on Mueno bas viedostaissa gnionste

Fitxa med bart

ud dangos fumað

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i TAMENT au od st

dázzub yło mus I dolds

In return for the Society undertaking to take

no further steps to boycott Messrs Butterfield and Swire,

the firm have agreed to:-

1. Pay $5,200 (/2000 contributed by the Compradore

and his staff) as compensation to the relatives of the

deceased passenger.

2.

3.

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Dismiss the Captain of the ship.

Post a notice on the steamer, warning the Captain

officers and crew against illtreating Chinese passengers.

4. Use their best endeavours to secure a retrial of

the Portuguese watchman before the Portuguese Consul.

The Chinese newspapers add a fifth article,

namely an admission on the part of the firm that the pas-

senger was murdered by the watchman, but it is possible

that the firm's promise to reopen the case against the

watchman has been construed into an admission of his guilt.

I have the honour to enclose copy and trans-

lation of an article which appeared in the "Kwo Shih Pao*

of the 5th. August, announcing the conclusion of the

negotiations with Messrs Butterfield and Swire, and copy

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and

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