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Self-Government 80mety, the President and Vice-

President of which are University and School

Professors, and whose membership includes all the

Chinese teachers at the University.

A recent case has occurred in which, in

consequence of a quarrel with an American member

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of the Canadian Methodist Mission, the students at

the Mission School, after going on strike, fomented

a serious agitation against the Mission, issuing

circulars of a most offensive nature, and Mr Hewlett

apprehends that the movement will assume serious

proportions leading to trouble sooner or later.

He adds that the officials are fully alive to

the situation, but that there is not a single

man in Szechuan capable of coping with serious

anti-foreign agitations.

Concerning the Canadian Mission, whose

treatment of their servants apparently led to the

initiation of the present movement, Mr Hewlett

considers that the members or the mission cannot

be regarded as entirely free from blame. Your

Lordship will no doubt consider the advisability

of conveying to the Headquarters of the Mission

a warning of the extreme care which it is incumbent

upon their members in Szechuan to take to prevent

giving sinuse for any further development of the

servant agitation,

I shall not fail to report to Your Lordship

in due course the nature of whatever replies are

received from the Superintendents of British

Kissions in Szechuan to Mr Hewlett's request for

information