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take this step were these. Of the persons whose names are
mentioned in my despatch of the 25th. ultimo some were in
the Colony and some happened to be absent at the date the
Banishment orders were issued. As soon as those who were
in the Colony learned that banishment warrants had been
issued against them, they left the Colony, before the
Police communicated with them, with the exception of 3 men
--Ch'an Hang-kiu, Ng Hin-tsz (also called Ng Hin-om) and
Fip Kun-ma!). The first of these went to the Registrar
General and protested that he had taken no part either in
the boycott or in the riots and that he was willing to
publish a statement in the local press to that effect. I
considered his case in Executive Council on the 1st. instant
and the Council unanimously advised that if Ch'an Hang-kiu
published such a statement the banishment warrant issued
against him should be cancelled. The statement, copy of
which I enclose, was made before the Registrar General on
the 3rd. instant and published in the native press on the
4th and 5th. instant. A similar statement, copy of which
I also enclose, was voluntarily published in the native
Re-Press by Yik Chi-kin, a prominent member of the Commerce
Investigation Society, as the Boycott organisation styles
itself.
6. On the