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CHAPTER VII.
THE GOVERNMENT INTERVENE.
ON Monday, October 19th, Slater's office was again asked for detectives, and, when they came, they were posted with instructions to watch the Legation night and day.
At 12 noon, by appointment at the Foreign Office, Mr. Cantlie submitted his statement in writing. The Foreign Office were evidently anxious that some less official plan of release should be effected than by their active interference, in the hopes that international complications might be averted.
Moreover, the proofs of my detention were mere hearsay, and it was unwise to raise a question which seemed to be
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