0 is a great sense of relief and satisfaction that trouble has been so well warded off and a feeling that a very cult position has been saved. To the Consuls and Chinese officials much praise is due. Had hostilities broken out and Amoy been seized, as doubtless would have been the case if the Chinese had shown any resistance, one can hardly conceive what consequences might have followed. It would have been the brevking of the agreement for integrity of the Empire. Fiowever, the situation has been well saved and we are back again to where we were, plus a wholesome dread of foreign arms and a very patent manifestation of friendliness on the part of Western Powers generally.
7th September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.