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proclamation of the 3rd. instant.
3.
I have also directed the Registrar-
-General to warn Kwok Yik-chi, Ch'an Ch'un-p'ang and Ch'an
Lok-ch'un that they are suspected of complicity in the
recent disturbances of the peace and will be banished if
found to take any further part in the boycott movement: and
finally I have caused Ch'ue Kwan-min to be warned that he
will at once be banished if the "Sheung Po" newspaper
contains any further allusion, open or veiled, to the
boycott. This newspaper had for some time before the riots
occurred been in the habit of indulging in veiled threats
against such Chinese Merchants as did not participate in
the boycott.
4.
On the 14th. instant one of the
leading Chinese Merchants of the Colony handed the
Colonial Secretary a list of six persons who he said were
very prominently connected with the proceedings which led
up to the disturbances of the 1st. and 2nd. instant. The
names of these persons were Hoa Tso-wan, Leung Sui-hing,
Tsang Yan-po, Ch'an Hang-k'iu, Nip Kun-man, and Ng Hin-om.
The information so given to the Colonial Secretary was
confirmed by the Captain Superintendent of Police and in
most cases by the Registrar-General also and their names
had
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