CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 527

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in the public eye: to encourage subscriptions to the

Society: t embarrass the Colonial Governmunt, which last

your banished their leading members: finally to pre-

judice, and if possible to wreck, the Kucno Delimitation

negotiations now proceeding in Hongkong.

Until a month ago, the Society's attemple to

re-open the case of the watchman lloronha, to blackmil

Mesar: Putterfield and Swire and to humiliate the Portm

uguese Consul had signally failed, and I know that the

Society was discredited in the eyes of the people of

Canton.

Today, their victory over Hesars Putterfield

and Swire has undoubtedly restored to them much of their

former prestige, and this so-called settlement of the

"Fatahan" case, so far from disarming their hostility,

will assuredly encourage them to fresh acts of aggression

against foreign interests and foreign trade.

In the letters of Messr: Butterfield and Swiro

to yourself and the Self Coverment Society, which Your

Excellency