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fee or Individual.
Commons
Date,
1884
24 Oct
at previous Paper.
f
0.
/820/
tong trong
No. 18 22/
For
(Subject.)
DOMESTIC. C. O.
1822/
*
LEGE 25 OCT MA
27 Oct
262
Admiral Sir John Hay,--To ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, if information has been received of a riot at Hong Kong, consequent upon the compulsory employment of Chinese labour to coal French ships employed in hostilities with China:
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And, whether directions will be sent to the authorities at Hong Kong and Singapore to refrain from enforcing any contract to labour which may have been entered into by our Chinese fellow-subjects, who from patriotic reasons may reasonably object to such employment.
(Minutes.)
Sir R. Herbert
Before fixing
the answer to this:
? send the Telegram I have proposed
on 18201.
S.W.9.250ct.
Sent: [arquert from 7.0. for putten aufruation in
a law;
3.0.
disposed of or 89%
So
18250
(8 (1100) & rms. 8--821
M.25
Le 18106.
2
anson might be
"that in consequen
Telyrams
the Press reporting
risti
adred
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at Hay Kory
the local foot
If telegraph in the 19th bath the thin Chunen Labourers had been compelled h
work for Bench Ships, and a
reply has
wew
fied for
bem recrwed stating that on the 29 September sconal persons