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China
Robert K Robert Kennaway Douglas
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A characteristic incident occurred while he was being taken to the wharf at Canton. On his way through the streets, escorted by his foreign captors, the coolies laughed and jeered at the fallen condition of their former oppressor. It is probable that few men have made themselves more detested than Yeh. His cruelty was excessive, and he is said to have executed a hundred thousand rebels during his Viceroyalty of four years. A day or two before the assault on the city, undeterred by the difficult...y of his foreign policy, he sent four hundred of these evildoers to the execution ground, and, in the minds of the people, his memory will long be associated with all that is brutal and savage. Yeh, having thus been disposed THE GOVERNMENT OF CANTON 269 of, it was necessary that arrangements should be made for the government of the city. Pikwei was re-estabHshed as governor, and a commission of three, consisting of Parkes, Colonel Holloway, of the Marines, and a French naval officer, was appointed to administer affairs.

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