CHINESE LEGATION.
C.O.
703
34623
RECO
O
Real 3 DEC 99
December 6th. 1899.
My Lord Marquess:-
I have the honour to inform your Lordship
that I have received a telegram from my Government
instructing me to call the attention of Her Majesty's
Government to the fact, that a man of the name of Kang
Yu Wei, a Member of a Society of disaffected Chinese
Subjects who are endeavouring to excite troubles in
the South of China, is now residing at Hongkong and
to request that, as an act of international comity,
he may be expelled the Colony.
In making this request, I need not enlarge
on the undesirability - not only from a Chinese,
but also from an English point of view
of Chinese subjects being allowed to make use of Hongkong as a "pied-à-terre"
whence they may sow the seeds of dissatisfaction in
the adjacent province of Canton.
The Taiping rebellion which had its origin in Hongkong, and the regret-
de Marquess of Salisbury, K.G.,
&C.,
&c.