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Ary. 3 MAY 15:
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG, 25th. Larch, 1915.
I have the honour to report that under the
powers conferred on me by the Order in Council of Her late lajesty
Queen Victoria wade on the 26th. October, 1696, I ordered a Sikh
named Hira Singh to quit the Colony and he left for Saigon in the
S. S. "Derwent" on the 31st. December last.
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The circumstances which led to my taking this
action were as follows. Hira Singh was a watch.en at the wharf at
Aberdeen, and evidence was obtained by the Government that at a
meeting at which about 80 Indians were present held on the 25th.
November this man was the chief speaker. Those present were nearly all watchmen and the talk was seditious in character, the gist of
it being that the Indians in Hongkong should return to India, and
try to stir up trouble there. Prior to this on the 7th. November
Hira Singh sent two of his sons to No. 7 Police Station in
Victoria with copies of the 'Ghadr' newspaper from which they read
aloud to the Folice present as the paper was printed in Gurmukhi
which the inhommedans were unable to read. On the following day Hira
Singh acknowledged to a Lahomedan Police Constable at Aberdeen
that he had circ lated copies of the 'Chadr' among the Police
Stations in the New Territories.
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I am informing the Government of India of the
deportation
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, 2.P
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