The matter was at once reported] to the British Consul, and in con-med guard was sent] tone of the two de-rovers which were fortunately in port, and stationed pital. The authorities were inform. ed that the guard would be removed '88 soon as satisfactory assurances Hwere given that the hospital would be left undisturbed to carry on its work in its own way.
For two days no reply was received, for a feeble and obviously insincere protest against the landing fof the guard from the neting Commissioner for Foreign Affairs could not be called such, At the same time it was plain that the authori-wore feeling distinctly uncomfortable about it, and realized that they had no case at all; for the references to the affair in the newspapers on these two days were—false of course—but of the mildes quali i to be no working up of a about it, and there was no whatever of any spontaneous feeling among the people generally. [Not only did the soldiers in hospital remain there but more were coming in each day, The General Takes his Medie'ne Accordingly, in order to avoid! dragging out the incident over the national holiday, on the assumption Spoliation of the wealthier people. [that the General had taken The sum total of this we shall] ™edicine in silence, the guard was} Probably never learn. to Withdrawn on the evening of the he hoped" that those who are %h.
So far the General has not how 0 forward cing [erupted again, and everything has this sort of thing are beginning to realize that they, and no others, are responsible for it; for it was under the aegis of the Kuomintang that {wo years ago these unions were formed, and were allowed to work! their will among the villages, and wreck the existing systems of control
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