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Our Division, the Sheung U Tung, and your Division, the Un Long, have been disturbed by the barbarians in a most insolent manner. You say that on the 8th day (17 April) there will be a great battle when our forces will collect at three points.
presume this is true. I am afraid we will not be able to resist them.
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Your
District and ours are adjacent and united by bonds of kinship. We must help one another and render mutual support so as to avoid endless disaster.
Excuse my suggesting that you should not stand by with folded arms.
3.
I have received your letter and noted its contents. The villages in our division have not decided on any plan of warlike operations and our commissariat and arms are insufficient [not prepared]. I think that it will be very difficult to determine a plan of resistance. But we look up to your Division and whatever regulations you may make we will follow.
4.
I have received your letter and noted its contents. The villages in our Division have no plans. Moreover, our commissariat and arms being insufficient, how can we offer effective resistance? We request your Division to decide on the plan of compaign and we will follow your instructions.
5.
The Sheung U Division has spent 14 dollars for the conveyance of letters which expense should be defrayed by the 4 clans-Liu, Tang, Hau, and P'áng. Very little now remains of the Committee's funds. The subscription of $3.50 which is to be paid by each clan please draw from the Man Shek-tong's public fund and hand the amount to A PING to bring here to meet current expenses. The Hau, Tang, and P'áng clans have already paid their subscriptions, but the Liu clan has not yet done so and I anticipate there will be difficulty about it.
To my eldest nephew.
Dated 8th day (17th April).
SHI TAI (¿e., LIU WAN-KUK).
6. NOTICE
Now that the various villages in our Division have resisted the English and as their weapons are most effective, it is feared some will not be able to escape them. If any one is even slightly wounded he will be medically treated until he has completely recovered.
7.
On receipt of this pay 30 cents to A PING for wages for work done.
To my nephew A TIM.
Dated 7th (16th April?)
SHI TAI (ie., LIU WAN-KUK).
8.
The clans of our Division have met and decided to proceed to-morrow to the (Tung Ping Kuk at) Sham (Chun) to ascertain what plans have been decided on by the various clans. We therefore specially write to inform you and to request that the gentry of your Division will come to-morrow to our Division, so that we may all proceed together by which the sentiments of our two Divisions may be manifested. We trust that you will make a point of coming. We shall be very much obliged.
9.
The Un Long Division states that there are 3,000 fighting men coming to our territory to unite with the villages in our territory in offering armed resistance. If this is true I entreat you to remove the flag of submission which I understand you have hoisted so as to prevent the men of the lower part of our Division from
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