Sub-Enclosure 2 to Enclosure 1.
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Postscript Memorial to the Viceroy Tan, dated
March 1893
Translation.
To Your Majesty,
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Your Majesty's servant, in obedience to Your Majesty's commands, respectfully presents a supplementary Memorial setting forth certain facts as he had ascertained them, and prays that Your Majesty will deign to look at it.
The Grand Council suggested to him the following decree of the 19th December 1892:-
It is reported to us that the Kuang Tung secret societies in Macao and elsewhere get together and raise trouble, under the names grass-slippers, Red-sticks, and White-fans; that in October they privily plotted rebellion and that, as the ringleader remains at large there is no serious danger. Let Tan direct his civil and military forces to arrest him without fail and not let him slip through the net. Let a copy of the original Memorial be given him for perusal.
The seditious secret societies of Kuang Tung have as many names as there are leaders. Such are the "Three Dot" Society and many others besides those mentioned in the Decree.
Kuangtung being a poor country, thickly populated, the people find it hard to subsist and so many go abroad to seek a livelihood. Most of the present well-to-do families are returned emigrants. For instance, in the one port of Pakhoi (or "Paton" as written here), where there is