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lodged.
The Police opened the letter, which the
oman had intended to post that day, to see if it
gave any clue to a plot. The letter was to a relative
in Canton. It dealt with many domestic details dow
to the recent sale of a pig, and concluded with these
words:- Yesterday my lodger fired a pistol at the
Governor of Hongkong and most unfortunately missed
The woman had no quarrel with the Hongkong
Government or with me, whom she had probably never
seen in her life. She merely regretted that I had
not been killed, as one might regret that one's
terrier had missed a rat in a ditch.
him "
Again-- Mr.Muarray Stewart, whose name will
be familiar to you as a prominent Member of Council,
soon after the revolution took place, was elbowed
off the pavement in Queen's Road in to the gutter--
not an uncommon experience of European ladies and
men in these days--by a half-naked Chinese coolie.
There was no Policeman near,
ar, and Mr.Murray Stewart
very nearly retaliated by knocking the man down.
He restrained himself, however, and seeing Mr. Fung
Wa -ch'un, one of the leading Chinese at that time
in Hongkong, said to him "Did you see that ? I
felt inclined to knock that man down # To which
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Mr. Fung replied I am glad you did not do so. I
might not have been able to save you from the mob
that would have at once assailed you. Why, if I
were to hold up my hand and call out Strike!
Strike! " and point to you or any other foreigner,
the Chinese coolies in the street would tear you
or him limb from limb,
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during the Bogerth the Low Level I camway
I Avm suffered from this ánimosity myself.
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