Enclosure No. 6.
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Honourable Captain Superintendent of Police,
FRONTIER INCIDENTS.
深圳
1. Except for a certain livliness at Sham Chun the north-west
frontier is otherwise peaceful.
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2. On the 12th instant a Sun Yat Sen Anniversary Meeting was
held at Sham Chun. There was a good deal of speech-making,
some of the speeches being rather inflammatory and anti-British
in character; otherwise the meeting was without incident.
3.
Yesterday, the 19th instant, a meeting of Soldiers and
Citizens was held at Sham Chun, the event being previously
advertised by red banners suspended across the streets bearing
(請各界參加軍民聯歡大會
the characters ($b.¶¶ký ) (Please attend the
combined Entertainment of Saldiers & Citizens). The major por-
tion of the audience consisted of about 1,000 Soldiers and "Lang
民
宝
lan" from throughout on, augmented by Railway Employees
(Chinese Section), Students, Labour Union officials and loading
merchants. Speeches were given by representatives of the
various parties present, pamphlet (A) attached being a summary
of the various subjects embraced. These latter consisted mainly
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of diatribes against Tun Ki Sui for his massacre of "Heroes"
張作霖
at Peking; Chang Tso Lin and his troops; Britain, Japan, France,
America and others for assisting in the transport of Feng troops,
etc. Reference was made to the French Revolution of 1870, which
was extolled as an example of the will of the people. There was the usual claptrap about Imperialism, "running doga", and much
frenzied invective in general, but the crowd remained orderly throughout the proceedings which terminated at about 1600 hours.
沙頭角 4. That a military guard is still necessary at Shataukok is
shown by the following incident. About noon on the 18th instant
in the short interval of changing the picket, the boundary was
visited
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