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# Governor Sir M. Nathan to Mr. Lyttelton.
Received, Colonial Office, 2:30 am, 24 September.
Referring to your telegram of yesterday, arrangements for Chinese emigration from Kwangsi at Wuchau have not broken down and have already begun to take effect. Emigration from Kwangtung cannot succeed unsupported by the Viceroy, whose opposition has been obvious. The Transvaal Agent is sending more than 100 recruiters through the province without his authority, and no port in Kwangtung has been notified. Several of these have been arrested. Efforts are being made to obtain their release from arrest and secure the co-operation of the Viceroy in Chinese emigration from Canton to South Africa, but unless we act with caution, the Chinese authorities will probably, under the Treaty of Peking, question the legality of existing recruitment agencies in China for Straits Settlements labour. This would be very inconvenient.
Telegram despatched 5:30 PM.
Sept 24/9
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