Your Excellency.
CONY
Ping Shan, 24th April, 1899.
730
When we visited the Meeting House at Un Long on the 22nd inst., I carefully searched the house for documents, being aided in the search by Mr. Tsoi. We found several documents which I have translated. I forward the translation herewith. I also forward statements made by Ng Ki Cheung, one of the gentry of the Un Long district, and by Tang Lo pan, one of the gentry of Kam Tin.
These documents and statements show clearly that there was a combined movement among the various districts in the territory for the purpose of offering resistance to the British. The movement seems to have started at Ping Shan, where we now are, and to have been taken up by the Ha Tsun district, in which resided Tang I Shek, Tang Tsung, and Tang Chik tung, who seem to have been chiefly instrumental in inducing the gentry and elders of other districts to join the movement. The villagers do not seem to have shown any desire to resist, but having been incited by their gentry and elders, it was impossible to restrain them.
I attach a list of the gentry and elders whose names appear in the documents found at Un Long and in the statements of Ng Ki Cheung and Tang Lo pan. Nearly all the persons mentioned in the list have fled. Not having yet visited...