No.
353.
C Hongkong.
Sir,
70
28953
Government House,
C.
57451
586
IPE 2 NOV OF
Hongkong, 29th September, 1904.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 250 of the 25th August, 1904, transmitting for my consideration a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office enquiring whether there would be objection to two Chinese subjects named Chang Ping-lin and Chon Yung, now undergoing imprisonment at Shanghai for publishing seditious pamphlets, being sent to Hongkong in a British Vessel when they have served their terms of imprisonment.
2.
In reply, I have to state that in my opinion there are strong objections to Chinese political agitators being allowed to use Hongkong as an asylum. Apart from the fact that the experience of the past shows that such persons would not be safe here without some measure of Police protection, entailing expense upon the Government, it appears to me that their presence at Hongkong would certainly be misconstrued by the Chinese Authorities in the neighbouring provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, and would tend to impair those harmonious relations which it is clearly to the interest of the Colony to maintain.
Hongkong lies too close to Canton, the seat
3.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
&c...
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353.
C Hongkong.
Sir,
70
28953
Government House,
C.
57451
586
IPE 2 NOV OF
Hongkong, 29th September, 1904.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 250 of the 25th August, 1904, transmitting for my consideration a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office enquiring whether there would be objection to two Chinese subjects named Chang Ping-lin and Chon Yung, now undergoing imprisonment at Shanghai for publishing seditious pamphlets, being sent to Hongkong in a British Vessel when they have served their terms of imprisonment.
2.
In reply, I have to state that in my opinion there are strong objections to Chinese political agitators being allowed to use Hongkong as an asylum. Apart from the fact that the experience of the past shows that such persons would not be safe here without some measure of Police protection, entailing expense upon the Government, it appears to me that their presence at Hongkong would certainly be misconstrued by the Chinese Authorities in the neighbouring provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, and would tend to impair those harmonious relations which it is clearly to the interest of the Colony to maintain.
Hongkong lies too close to Canton, the seat
3.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
&c...