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my actions.
That I did not say this is, I think, proved by
On June 9th. I was officially informed by the
firm that the boycott had actually started in Hongkong
on the 8th. instant; on the 10th. I addressed strong
representations to the Viceroy in "anton and to His
Majesty's Minister in Peking (by telugraph); on the 14th.
instant I repeated my representations as at an interviow
with the Viceroy, and on the 16th. the proclamation I had
asked for, condemning the boycott, was inuued.
I was prepared, had the firm left the case in
my hands, to do my utmost to keep the Viceroy to the letter
of his proclamation, and I consider that we might,
the circumstances, have justifiably held the Viceroy and
the Chinese Coverment responsible for a continuance of
the boycott. This, Mossrs Butterfield and Swire's sur-
render has now rendered impossible.
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