CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 524

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at the bidding of a small band of irresponsible and un-

scrupulous agitators in Canton, headed by a wax mun who

is a notorious blackmailer (Li Kai Hi

banished

from Hongkong in 1908 for complicity in the Japanese

boycott riots), untirely abandon a position in the

"Fatshun" case, which they themselves, with the assistence

of the British authorities, have successfully maintained

for over six months.

Their position vis à vis the threatened boycott

was, in my opinion, practically unassailable. Denying

from the outset thoir responsibility for the death of

this passenger, a donial supported by the finding of the

onquiry hold at the British Consulate and confirmed by the

decision of the Chinese Authorities to take no further

judicial proceedings against tho accused watchman, they

yet, to conciliate public opinion, dismissed the watchman

from their service and offered to pay the deceased's

relatives any reasonable sum of money by way of a com-

`passionate allowance.

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