(C O P Y)
TELBGRAM
C.O.
(3)41145
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from Governor, Hongkong, to Secretary of State, London,
dated the 22nd September, 1904.
256
In reply to your telegram of yesterday's date arrange-ments for Chinese Emigration from Kwangsi Buchau not broken down and already begun to take effect.
Chinese Emigration from Kwangtung cannot succeed unsupported by Viceroy whose opposition has been produced by Transvaal Agent sending more than 100 recruiters through the province without his authority or port in Kwantung having been notified. Several of these have been arrested. Efforts are being made to obtain their release from arrest and secure co-operation of Viceroy in Chinese emigration from Canton to South Africa but unless we act with caution Chinese Authorities will probably under Treaty of Pekin question legality of existing recruiting agencies in China for Straits Settlements labour. This would be very inconvenient.