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the Boxer Protocol of 1901 and the supplementary Protocol

of 13th June 1904 and amplified in regulations issued

subsequently for the administration of the Quarter, was not,

of course, designed to meet a situation in which one of the

Protocol Povers should become a traitor in the ranks and,

if my personal recollection of the period of the 1914-1918

war is correct, no such organised meeting sponsored by one

Protocol Power against another took pluce within the limits

of the Quarter even at that time when feeling was running

high between the owers represented in Peking.

I can only hope that the Japanese authorities

will realise that on this occasion they have exceeded the

bounds of international propriety, and committed, or

allowed, an act which is justifiably resented not only by

this Donbassy but also by the bassies and Legations of

the other Protocol Powers.

5.

I have communicuted a copy of my letter to the

Japanese Ribasay (mclosure number one) confidentially to

my American and French colleagues.

I have the honour to be,

ir,

Your Excellency's most obedient,

humble servant,

(SIGNED) ALLAN ARCHER.

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