Copy.
Confidential.
sir.
Government House, Hong Kong,
21st November, 1900.
515
I have the honour to enclose for your infor- mation a statement made to Mr Lockhart by a person em- ployed by the ChineseGovernment. It gives I think a fairly accurate account of the late disturbances in the district north of the New Territory and some of the statements have been corroborated from other
If the information be correct the rebels in- tend to renew hostilities later on, but at present everything is apparently quiet.
sources.
2. On the 10th instant the General Officer Com-
manding Troops having informed me that dysentery had
appeared among the troops sent to the horder as a
measure of precaution, I approved of the detachment
being withdrawn, as with the new road now completed to Mirs Bay they could be replaced at a few hours notice
should necessity arise.
3. The allusion at the end of the statement as
to the intention to create disturbance on the 8th
September confirms information received before that
date that Triads intended to start a procession through
the New Territory and to Hong Kong, where Confederates
would set fire to several houses and take advantage
of the confusion to pillage. I did not believe the
information, but the Military were warned to be in
readiness to take up the positions that have been
arranged in anticipation of any trouble of the kind
and the police were on the alert. Nothing occurred.
I have, &c., (sd.) HENRY A.RLAKE, Governor, &c.
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&c.
&c.