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company of European officers.

Chinese, with the exception of one plucky rent collector,

would use the cars. Chinese employees of this

Government refused to use them even when in the

For the same reason

the students of the University preferred to do the

long journey to the Queen's Recreation Ground by

jinrickaha rather than travel by tramway.

Only one case of assault upon a passenger

by the Tramway came to the notice of the Police.

was on a Chinese domestic servant employed by an

European employee of the Company, who was attacked

by several Chinese in the Central Market after

alighting from a tramcar. He was stabbed in the

hand with some sharp instrument,

It

Enclosure 7.

Enc. $ 8.

Enclosures 6 and 7 are notices posted in the

street just after the meeting at Government House (described in paragraph 2 of my despatch of the 30th. December last ), and enclosure & is a translation of

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a threatening letter received by Mr. Wei Yuk (Wei Po-shan)

after he had spoken at the Commercial Union, as

This is not described in the despatch referred to. the only threatening letter received by Mr.Wei Yuk during the boycott. And since my name is introduced into the letter, I may mention that I myself received warnings from sources I could not ignore that attempts

might be made upon my life. As a result I exposed myself freely and alone, but armed, in the Chinese quarter to encourage the population to withstand

intimidation.

Mir. Lau Chu-pak was also the recipient of a

Dare to Die" threatening letter from the notorious

Society;