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was not visible to the men who fired, The firing occurred '
in broad daylight, and the excuse was absurd. In answer to
my enquiry a few days later, the Japanese Consul informed me
that he had taken no further action in the matter.
For about a week the despatch of men to Changchow and
Tungan continued, some hundreds proceeding daily. The Com-
missioner for Foreign Affairs reiterated his confidence that
both places would be recaptured in a few days, but up to the
present the signs are rather of a negative kind, consisting
chiefly of the return of wounded soldiers, The medical ar-
rangements of the Chinese Army being apparently primitive
and incomplete, wounded men make their own arrangements for
treatment, and some 200 wounded northern soldiers are now
accommodated at the American mission hospital on Kulangsu
Island.
Li Tuchun invited the Consular Body to tiffin on
September 11th; invitations were extended to Commander
Hilliard, of H.M.S. 'Cadmus', and to the Commissioner of
Customs. I hoped that the occasion would provide an op-
portunity for some statement from the Tuchun as to his plans
for dealing with the local situation in a port where are
large foreign interests; but he was uncommunicative; and I
concluded that the object of the tiffin was to let the local
population know that he is on good terms with foreigners,
rumours having been spread that the Southern party had ap-
proached the Consular Body to arrange for the safe-guarding
of foreign lives and porperty.
A Spanish priest arrived from Changchow, with a letter
addressed to himself and purporting to be signed by Ch'en
Ch'ing-ming, the Tupan of Swatow; the priest brought the let-
ter to Mr. Etoret, the French Vice-Consul, who brought it to
me for my advice. The letter requested the priest to inform
the Amoy Consular Body that Ch'ên intended to take the town |
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