Rece Peking G. 27 NOV 03
1st October 1903.
Your Highness:-
I have the honour to inform Your Highness that I have received a despatch from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong acquainting me with a serious violation of the territorial rights of the Colony committed by persons acting under the instigation of certain Chinese officials with the connivance of the Chinese Admiral Ho.
It appears from the Governor's despatch and from the documents that accompany it that the ringleader of the plot to murder certain Chinese officials at Canton last Chinese New Year, the discovery of which was due to information given by the Hongkong authorities, was a certain Hung Ch'üen-fu or Hung Ch'üan-kuei, who escaped arrest and went to Hongkong. For his arrest a reward of $30,000 was secretly offered by the Provincial Treasurer of Canton
His Imperial Highness,
Prince Ch'ing,
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&c.,
&c.,
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