Hongkong, March 97. An indignation mass meeting was in the Public Gardens at Macao last evening to protest against the arrest of Portuguese citizens in Shanghai.
The meeting appointed " deputation of representative citizens to wait upon the Governor. His Excellency received the deputation sympathically and promised to telegraph the Portuguese Premier in Lisbon to secure redress for their grievance.
The citizens of Macao have telegraphed to the Portuguese communities in Lisbon, Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton to secure their ce-operation in an emphatic protest against arbitrary Consular actions and violation of the liberty of the subject. The meeting parsed 'a resolution protesting against the promulgation in Shanghai of the Consular regulation published in the Press on March 21 as being ultra vires.—Reuter.
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