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At 2 p.m. on the 6th. Chin Run() sathered
the troops, Police and pickets at the British Marines' Club.
He pointed out that the splendid work done by the troops
and Police for several days plet in maintaining order in the
British Concussion shoved that their hearts were in the clue
of the Kuomintang and their country. Now that the British
Concession had ooon taken over, he stiu, it was their duty
to administer it better than the Mglish huu uono. He hoped
that all his Compudes would continue to show the same spirit
and look after the residents without discrimination.
At 6 p... yesterday Dugene Chen (= 1) wont
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to the British Consulate, so the British Consul-General,
Goffu, nd assured him that the recent disturbance among
the Populace was merely a protest against the violence of
the British marines, and that they entertained no hostility
whatever towards the British residents. Now Seeing that
the British Concession had bn Munded over to the National
Government, the Government would do its utmost to protect
the lives and property of British subjects. He asked the
Consul-General to tell the British to continue their busincs.
Ls usual and not to excite themselves.
But most of the British would not listen to his
Briti...l un-boat proceeded to
Shanghai full of British pussonore.
advice. Last evening a
My more have gone
on board the S.D. Lung Yo und Kat Wo steamers belonging to
Jardine, Matheson & Co. nu the D.D. Po Young to the Butter-
field & wire, which will leave this evening. Thoke who
could not get on board in time, were ordered by the British
Consul-General to take refuge in the godown of the Asiatic
Petroleum Co. in River Struct, in the Japanese Concestion.
The Hong Kong and hanghai Bank, the Chartered Bank of Indic
and the Asiatic Petroleum Co. have all suspended business,
and many other British firms have also buon closed. About
half of the American residents in the British Concussion
inve
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