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(1) By order of the Foreign Ministry of the Nationalist Government, a Committee has been organised to control the British Concession at Kiukiang. The Committee together with the responsible troops and police will maintain good order in the Concession, and protect
the lives and properties of all foreign settlers adequately. As in duty bound, this notice is issued for the information of all foreigners.
(2) By order of the Foreign Ministry of the Nationalist Government properprotection will be afforded to the lives and properties of foreigners. As in duty bound this is issued for information of all foreigners in
Kiukiang in the hope that they will live on in peace
and continue their business as usual, and will not in any way be excited. A report was also submitted
yesterday by General Ho Yiu Cho, Chiu Ki, and Chow Yung Nang, members of the Committee, to the Headquarters of the Generalissimo as regards his despatch of troops
to maintain order in the British Concession. It reads
as follows:-
"Since the fall of Kiukiang into the hands
of my Army, a detachment of our gendarmes had been
dispatched to the vicinity of the Concession day
and night on patrol duty to afford protection, for
we were afraid that while our great enemies were
still opposed to us, any diplomatic trouble would
greatly affect our military work. Later I found
that sandbags and wire entanglements had been put up in
the British Concession and British marines with fixed
bayonets had been posted in different roads on
patrol duty, as if they were expecting to meet with
a great attack. I sent my secretary Fan Yung to see
the British Consul Ngok Hak Tang and advise him to
have
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