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have nothing to do, but if there should be war, they will then become rebels. when he took the oath, he jumped
two swans are across the others. It's further said that he cannot be an informer to lay information against them,
they will all set upon him and cut him off to a certainty.
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AS NO 197.
CS.O. NO 2821. Appendix No. 2
The Acting Governor of the British Colony of Hongkong.
March.
issues a proclamation.
Whereas it is well known that many members of the Triad Society are residing in various parts of Hongkong and that the names of the leaders have been reported both to the local police and the officials of the Government, and whereas these reports are
found on close examination to be real, from which it appears the members contemplate acts which are not in accordance with law, I, the said Governor, have issued stringent instructions to all Police and other officers to carefully watch and promptly report to me the proceedings of the heads of the Society so that they may render all proper and lawful assistance to the Chinese
Government in preventing
the
commission of Offences, and I further
hereby