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(Received Colonial Office 9.30 a.m.22nd September 1904)

70

Tv. 32557

In reply to your telegram of yesterday, arrangements for Chinese emigration from Kwangsi at Fuchan not broken down and already began to take effect. Chinese migration from Kwangtung cannot succeed unsupported by Viceroy whose opposition has been obvious. Transvaal Agent sending more than one hundred recruiters through the Province without his authority or

Several of port in Kwangtung having been notified.

these have been arrested. Efforts are being initiated to obtain their release from arrest and secure co-operation of Viceroy in Chinese emigration from Canton to South Africa but unless I act with caution Chinese authorities will probably under treaty raise question legality of existing recruitment agencies in China for Straits Settlements labour. This would be very inconvenient.

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have acted

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and

do not accumulate.

the responsibility for these particular

difficulties rest with him and in the blatant wish of the mining houses who brook

delay

and want everything some of use

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7337

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telegraphed to Low Miley

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to Lucas

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better explain privately

the situation to the Eckstein, whom I know

well? I think we

may avoid considerable

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with Wernher Beit

this side, who

the

news in

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would enforce

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Dr.

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2379

23 at once

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Gx. 23

Telegram. Governor Sir M.Nathan to Mr Lyttelton.

(Received Colonial Office 9.30 a.m. 22nd September 1904)

70

Tv. 32557

In reply to your telegram of yesterday, arrangements for Chinese emigration from Kwangsi at Fuchan not broken down and already began to take effect. Chinese migration from Kwangtung cannot succeed unsupported by Viceroy whose opposition has been obvious. Transvaal Agent sending more than one hundred recruiters through the Province without his authority or

Several ports in Kwangtung having been notified.

these have been arrested. Efforts are being initiated to obtain their release from arrest and secure co-operation of Viceroy in Chinese emigration from Canton to South Africa but unless I act with caution Chinese authorities will probably under treaty raise question legality of existing recruitment agencies in China for Straits Settlements labour. This would be very inconvenient.

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