Enclosure 2.
Sir,
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Registrar-General's office,
Hongkong, 22nd February, 1904.
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The Honourable
I have the honour to forward herewith for
the information of His Excellency the Officer Administering the
Government translations (with originals) of two extracts from the
Wei San Yat Po and the Sheung Fo newspapers of the 20th instant,
and to request you to invite His Excellency's attention particularly
to the portions underlined.
2.
I submit that the publication of such views
is dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony and that
the individuals responsible should be banished from the Colony as
promptly as the law permits.
3.
The "Wei San Yat Po" is a paper of considerable
standing and has hitherto been run on what are regarded by
the Chinese as orthodox lines and until within the last two years
has never touched on public questions. Its aberration is therefore
all the more remarkable. The proprietor and publisher Mr. Luk Kin-
hong is I believe seriously ill and absent from the
Colony, but as he is registered as proprietor he ought to have
taken steps to see that the paper was conducted properly during
his absence. I therefore recommend that a banishment warrant be
issued in his case. The manager of the paper in his absence is one Siu, given name unknown, those of the editors are Bo and Luk Bim-ho. I recommend that banishment warrants be issued for all three of these if legally
possible, but that before they are expelled from the Colony they
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be brought before the Registrar-General to be questioned as to
the Staff of the paper and the persons directly responsible for
A. M. Thomson,
Acting Colonial Secretary.