The summons calling the meeting is taken as read.
The minutes of the last meeting are read, confirmed, signed by the Chairman and passed for publication, Nine months' leave is granted to Detective-Sergeant Craig to date from March 16.
Nine months' leave is granted to Sergeant Mills to date from May 10.
Mixed Court, Suggested Boycott of British Trade—A letter from the Consular Body is read, containing a communication from the Taotai in regard to the recent arrest of Yin Keh-chang in connexion with his responsibility for the issue of a circular advocating the boycott of the bank-notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, The Captain-Superintendent of Police in reporting on case writes "The action taken was guided solely by what I considered to be the extrem moly serious nature of the offence of which Yin Keh-chang, a Chinese official, was charged and had committed.
"In view of the history of the riot of 1905, and the part played in it by the dissemination of inflammatory and seditious literature, I considered that I should have failed in my duty bad I not taken immediate steps to suppress such literature as well as to arrest the author.
"The natural, and, in the light of i. obvious effect of the unrest in the Settlement, stir up anti-foreign feeling, and, so far as the author had any influence, nal
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