The Government deplores the ieeessity for the measures which had to be taken on the 15th inst. The rebel conspirators and their representatives had been warned repeatedly that the Government would be compelled to use force they proceeded with their sedititious activities and that the consequence would involve suffering not only on the guilty but also jon the innocent. They had, how-jover, presumed too much on the enieney and tolerance which the Government had consistently oxhibited throughout the affair. The responsibility for the suffering and damage must fall on those who, regardless of the warnings of the Government and reckless of the consequences to the citizens, had Pursued their political plots in the safety of Hongkong and Shameen. In the latter place particularly, owing. to the employment of Chan Lim-pak and his brother, Chan Lom-Jchung, as compradores of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the Jconspirators had a safe and convenient base for plotting. Orders fave now been issued for the arrest of these men, the Chan brothers, jand happiness of the people.
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