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would be cannot bear being thought about.
Thus we have no alternative but to send you a detailed map together with this statement of fact.
We once again kowtow before Your Excellency, all of us prostrate before your perspicuity and judgement.
With speed like fire send an official to investigate! Strictly punish your inferior's order and the powerful ruffians, in order to preserve the communications and roads of the mass of the people!
On the day the bridge is completed, everyone will praise your great deeds!
A petition!
To the Provincial Governor of Kwangtung, Chan, for his approval and action.
[The success of this bridge is entirely due to Tsok-san and Sheung-yan's efforts. This is inserted here so that people of later generations will remember]
This petition was successful. The Provincial Governor, in his response, stated his view that this was "not a matter of Fung Shui, but a matter of the loss of ferry revenue". Since this was a public place, the Cheungs had no right to object to the ferry being replaced by a bridge, nor had they any right to "convert their opposition into violence". He ordered that the bridge go ahead. He also found the accusations against the County Magistrate justified, and the County Magistrate was immediately dismissed from his post. It is not known when the bridge was actually built: the November 1924 aerial photograph shows the crossing still had no bridge there then, but the bridge was certainly in place very shortly afterwards.
It would seem that, in the 1860 war, the Ta Kwu Ling villagers were successful, but only up to a certain point. The Cheungs were ejected from Ta Kwu Ling, and the Ta Kwu Ling villagers were able to build a bridge over the main branch of the Sham Chun River,
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would be cannot bear being thought about.
Thus we have no alternative but to send you a detailed map together with this statement of fact.
We once again kowtow before Your Excellency, all of us prostrate before your perspicuity and judgement.
With speed like fire send an official to investigate! Strictly punish your inferior's order and the powerful ruffians, in order to preserve the communications and roads of the mass of the people!
On the day the bridge is completed, everyone will praise your great deeds!
A petition!
To the Provincial Governor of Kwangtung, Chan, for his approval and action.
[The success of this bridge is entirely due to Tsok- san and Sheung-yan's efforts. This is inserted here so that people of later generations will remember]"
This petition was successful. The Provincial Governor, in his response, stated his view that this was "not a matter of Fung Shui, but a matter of the loss of ferry revenue". Since this was a public place, the Cheungs had no right to object to the ferry being replaced by a bridge, nor had they any right to "convert their opposition into violence". He ordered that the bridge go ahead. He also found the accusations against the County Magistrate justified, and the County Magistrate was immeditately dismissed from his post. It is not known when the bridge was actually built: the November 1924 aerial photograph shows the crossing still had no bridge there then, but the bridge was certainly in place very shortly afterwards.
It would seem that, in the 1860 war, the Ta Kwu Ling villagers were successful, but only up to a certain point. The Cheungs were ejected from Ta Kwu Ling, and the Ta Kwu Ling villagers were able to build a bridge over the main branch of the Sham Chun River,
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