OPY.
ཚོ་བ་པས་“༞ ༢.
No.124.
sir,
Ca
I.B.M. Consulate-General,
Canton,
June 23rd. 1918.
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.DIGI yak tal
-immbrol fort gotnoflot erit beyteen ovadi I
iH dans vedtag I Itaq▲ ‚dtél nængalet wor" @onenstaetat noa to sno el abutista a'dmemoravoð ɛ'qdustak
beregnabre tom ene yêreqonq bna utl£ dalšina na good on Tinegong bluos yawitan edt at tuenetał wo ti Iutiduob ma I bas
•yzogadao evoda niɗtim emos of bied ed
VHELE LLON fy‡# #ng of
ence Iset I ebavorg
siquaxe ma dan digte doldu qotu e galbnenwooen mi moltatkued
paredão os nolšnevaesni to
gattttudum quoy od noldoetdo on nevevod svať 1
no moltarebienos no? jaskazovoð e1yžuotak «IH od moldsoup ada
‚atizom att
eset od smogong toa ob I vecsetamuonto eds ni
„noissa yns
I have the honour to soknowledge the receipt of Your
Exoşll@noy's despatch No. 101 of yesterday's date on the subjøot
of the recent derailment of an express train on the canton-
Kowloon Railway.
In reply I would beg leave to state that I do not feel
justified in recommending to His Majesty's Minister the present
adoption of the steps indicated by Your Excellency for the
fellowing reasons.
(1) It would be undesirable, as has been pointed out, at
this junoturg to set an sxample of intervention without good
and sufficient causs being shown.
(2) The derailment was not the result of cencerted
military operations such as at one time mensced the safety
of the ling.
(5) It was carried out by a gang of brigands whe for
mentha past have infested the section wherein the outrage vas
committed and whom the Governor of the Provinos ought to have
hunted down long ago. That, in spite of repeated warnings, be
failed to do so is presumably to be attributed to other
preoccupations arising out of the general political situation.
(4) General Lung is now taking belated but energetic
misasures of repression, and I should prefer to wait the outcome
thereof.
(5) As you are aware, I have held him personally
responsible for the damage done, and it is possible that the
United States Government may instruct their representativs
to claim compensation for the death of one of their citizens.
In such an #vent, should Eis Majesty's Minister conour, joint pressure oeuld be exercised, which would certainly have a geot
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