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in a conspiracy to blow up the Governor's Yamen and
seize the opportunity to commence operations. They
concealed a quantity of dynamite in a house in the
Hou Lou Fang street, the explosion of which killed
several people. The scheme was also to blow up the
Tartar General's Yamen, Treasurer's Yamen, and the
Kwan Yin Hill Powder Magazine inside the city wall,
and the Arsenal, but it was not accomplished. Yeung
Chu Yun had appointed prisoner chief leader and
director for Canton City and directed him to superintend
the transmission of funds. Prisoner also said
that they had for name and sign "The Guild of China's
Exaltation".
Shih Ching Ju was executed, sanction having been
duly obtained, and the members of the confederacy
disclosed by the evidence are being rigorously
hunted down.
A detective now reports the discovery that the arch
criminal Yang Chu Yun is now concealing himself in
Hong Kong and again collecting confederates with a
view to making trouble.
We would point out that this arch rebel Yang Chu Yun,
having started what he calls the "Guild of China's
Exaltation", actually had the daring to plot explosions
in the Yamens, hoping for an opportunity to commence
operations, and that if the plot had succeeded, the
Capital of the Province would have been thrown into
unimaginable disorder, which would have most seriously
affected the commerce in which foreigners are concerned.
Thus he is guilty of great and abominable crime;
and as the detective has discovered that this man is
concealed in Hong Kong, it is of immediate necessity
that he be arrested and dealt with so that the
principal in the crime may be punished.
But Hong Kong is foreign territory and it is not