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Endhouse 1 in Gwenn's Secret 286 Despatch 4 28 Naty 176.
Extract from On Nga Po, Canton, 28th. November,
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Copy of a notice of the Canton and Hongkong Merchants.
Now since republicanism is highly approved by all
nations, the Chinese Republic has been speedily established as the
result of the joint efforts of all the people of our country. The
recent centralization of the Republican Government and the union of
the five races under our Republic enjoy the universal support of
all friendly civilized nations, and in commerce there has existed
closer friendship between their people and ours than before.
Recently, however, the Electric Traction Company, regardless of
national friendship, has issued a notice discriminating against
Chinese Silver Coins and refusing to accept them, a step evidently
designed to cast a slur on our Republic and to repudiate friendship
with our people. Now since the company refuses to accept Chinese coins, that is to say, they reject our intercourse with them, there
-fore all of us should not fallow ourselves to be boycotted but
should refuse to travel by the company's trams. Anybody who permits
himself to be boycotted and travels by the tramway is no better that
a brute beast. Indeed all our fellow-countrymen should speedily
awake.
The whole commercial community of Canton and Hongkong.
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