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to attack the arsenal.

So much for the Chinese sido

wonders, with the derman plotting, if a row did start in Shanghai whether the Sikke would join in, it would be an opportunity for rising and there are many dissentents. There are over 1,000, 180 hare registered apart from the Police and if the order in Commeil comes out prohibiting them being mployed by Germans it my be another insentive to create a disturbance,

{signed} _X_V. 1les,

Lieutenant Gelonel, General staff, China Command.

Hongkong.

4th loveber, 1915,

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