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ranslation.
Extract from
Enclosure
518
c. o.
31348
"Wa Tsz Yat Po" of the 1st. September, 1910.
REGE 1300 10
An International issue consequent upon the
deputation of an official of the Foreign Bureau.
Some time ago the Governor-General deputed
Prefect Sit Wing-nin of the Foreign Bureau to reside in Hong-
-kong permanently to examine the Chinese emigrants going to
Peru. The Governor of Hongkong asked Governor-General Yun
through the British Consul to recall Prefect Sit. In reply
Governor-General Yun stated as his reason for declining to
accede to the request of the Governor of Hongkong that such a
measure was suggested by the Chinese Minister in Peru, and, if
an official was deputed to examine the emigrants only when the
steamer was about to sail, such examination could not possibly
be thorough and mistakes would occur. We have now learned that
the Governor of Hongkong has written a further communication
to the Governor-General through H. B. M.'s Consul-General in
Canton stating that prefect Sit Wing-nin in Hongkong must not
claim any official rank or privileges, and his only duty should be to examine as to the genuineness of the certificates of the Chinese emigrants going to Peru. If he goes beyond that duty,
he should be re-called.
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