Sir M. Ommariney
M-Lyttelton
I think M. May was right, and that his despatch is sound and sensible. With the European record in China I cannot understand
Wh. has only lived in China
any Chinaman loving Europeans.
leave China
But they cannot have it both ways and if they find an asylum in British Colonies they must not write against British White men.
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We should have been in a much more difficult position
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Mi May had referred the matter late to us & what he has done is at any rate not unfriendly to the Chinese government, which has strongly protested against an harbouring stationarios.
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I showed this to Sir. M. Nathan who has doubts the wisdom of what has been done, but I still think Mi May was probably right. We are not called upon there arbitarily to express an Opinion.
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3 May have noteworthy indiana. An paper by Su. Ad appears in to day "Truth"
CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
Sir,
434 14679 | Government House, Hongkong, 24th March, 1904,
I have the honour to inform you that the Chinese Reformer, Kang Yu Wei, arrived in Hongkong early in December last and announced his intention of residing in the Colony for a few months, his ostensible purpose being to visit his relations. He took lodgings in the vicinity of the Central Police Station, and orders were given by me that he should be protected by the Police.
2. The restless state of the neighbouring provinces, the promulgation of numerous seditious and anti-foreign placards in Canton itself, and the arrival in the Colony of persons who were known to be concerned in schemes and conspiracies for the disturbance of the Chinese Government made it necessary to keep a careful watch on the movements of those who, like Kang Yu Wei, were suspected of spending their time in Hongkong otherwise than in idle recreation or legitimate business. Various reports have reached me from time to time during the past few months that political movements were being discussed by the members of the Reform Party in Hongkong, and that they were using this Colony as a base from which they might, when opportunity offered, direct operations in China.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
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