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Ae, in the interests of the commercial develope- beit of the Colony, the latter was to thom of the treatest importance, I urged the rortuguese to adopt
13 conciliatory m attitude, with regard to the rest, p: was consistent with their national dignity and perritorial rights, and this attitude they have adopt- bộ throughout the negotiations.
It soon, however, come apparent, in the course thereof, that the Chi- lete, whilst prepared to take everything; offered, jednately opposed essential proposals put forward in
ection with the harbourworks, even though the For- puose pledged thanselves to hand over free of cost
jo cuina all improvements carried out on what was
lained by the Chinese delegates to be Chinese soil,
ht which had for centuries been under lortuguese
hrisdiction, should the, Delimitatăon Comid sal on
vtually decide that wrongful encroaclument had been
The sudden departure from Canton of Dr. tu
Ping fang and his son, and the consequent disintegrɛ-
to of the Military Government, led to an interrup- Hon of the negotiations, but they were remuned on
ko z5tà instant, when I really had hoped that en under
ing would be arrived at, as a result of prelimi -
rý private converɛɛtiong with Lâu Yê lin (formerly jister to the court of St. James', who now has his
are in : acao) and wen Taung yao, the newly appointed
later for Foreign Affairs in the kilitary Government,
Bio recently arrived from Shanghai, and, who for rea-
3002 of his own, ia nxious to ingratiate himself Fith this office. unfortunately it was only too
Vidant that in the interval there had been no change
I attitude and, on this being reported to me, i ad-
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