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Government House,
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March 12, 1901.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
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your Confidential despatch of 26 January enclosing for my con-
sideration a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office on the sub-
ject of alleged agitation against the Chinese Government in Yong-
kong.
1.In
In my reply of the 23 January to your cypher telɑ-
gram of the 21 inst. I had the honour to inform you that while so
far as the police could learn there was no active agitation against
the Chinese Government, the entire Chinese community of the better
classes were in sympathy with the reform movement,
3. It must not be assumed that this sympathy with
reform means sympathy with rebellion. None knows better than the
Chinese business men of Hongkong how seriously their business is
interfered with by rebellion, and I have heard the critical state
of Canton deplored by British Chinese subjects who had business interests in that city.
4. As regards the list of persons connected with
the conspiracy of Kang Yu Wei inclosed in Sir Chihchen Lofengluh's
communication of 12 January to the Foreign Office, I have the
honour to enclose a copy of a letter received by me from Kang Yu
Wei last November, which shows that he has no sympathy with any
rebellious movement against the Manchu dynasty. And from Yung Wing,
whose acquaintance I made when on board the steamer for Shanghai
last April, I have heard that what the party desires is reform in
the direction of
pur
ity of administration and not rebellion.
5. From time to time intimation is given that cer-