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OICE OXRE DIRON

or of Macao, on his side, han dissolved the Chinese

guilds thus provoking the Chinese to a nitch of fury. Fith the additional fuel added by the incident dealt

with in my telegram No. 210 of the 22nd, ultimo a Blaze would nim:st certainly have broken out had not

the Cantonese een so deeply engaged in their ow

domestic quarrels, -a reported in wy recent intelli-

gence telegrams, As it is the position is evidently

ost precarious and it will be fortunate if the

rarties get throwh the your without open war,

Fortunately tonsieur de Freiina is entirely

free from chauvinisɛ in the atter and is solely con-

cerned to relieve his country from the incesannt

trouble nd danger engendered by what he himself ces-

cribes as a "Plamo sot".

TEJAND

Co-ies of two despatches from ills Majesty's

Consul-General at Cunton transmitting further in-

stallments of the polemic between the two Governments

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