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Concession, disastrous results may ensue.

Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Your

Excellency may be pleased to direct His Britannic

Majesty's Consul-General at Canton te order the

removal from the British Concession known as the

Shameen at Canton of all persons of enemy nationality

and to prohibit the return of such persons during

the pendency of the present war. And your petition-

ere will ever pray etc.

Dated this 18th day of May 1915.

(Signed by the following:)

Herbert Dent.

0.V. Lanning.

Oscar Lager.

H.S. Smith.

G.C. Kitching.

A. Vivian Hogg.

H.H.

Sandeman.

E.H. Smyth.

R.V. Batchelor.

C.A. Peel.

J.M. de Couroy.

D.C. Beadel.

H.E. Hollands.

I.F. Lyle.

H. Sutton.

J.A. Lawrance.

C.G. Fry.

G.A. Read.

E. Marshall Wood

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