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Enclosure
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Race 5 SEP 10.
Registrar-General':
's Office,
Hongkong, 12th. May, 1910.
Sir,
:
I have received information from sources
which carry the greatest weight and which it would be imprudent
to disregard that Mr. Young Hee of the Education Department has
attained a position of notoriety in Hongkong as a man who is
leading a scandalously dissolute life and who is connected with
businesses of doubtful integrity. I do not expect my informants
would be willing to give chapter and verse for their state-
-ments but I am quite satisfied that one at any rate of my
informants - a very liberal-minded gentleman - would not have
said a word to me on the subject, had not Mr. Young's conduct
been notorious. I address you instead of the Director of
Education because I think that the matter should be brought to
His Excellency's notice and that Mr. Young should be warned by
direction of His Excellency that if any further report reaches
him to the same effect Mr. Young's conduct will be subjected to
the most rigorous investigation. I hope, and my informants
believe, that such a warning will be effective, if Mr. Young is
made to understand that it cannot be disregarded with impunity.
I have etc.,
(sd.) A. W. Brewin
Registrar-general.
The Honourable
Mr. A. M. Thomson,
Colonial Secretary,