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question and said that there had not been a meeting at tae
Temple of any kind between Sunday the 25th July and Sunday
the 1st August. On the latter date there was a loyal meeting
in connection with the approaching anniversary of the outbreak
of war at which a subscription for Sikhs wounded in the war
was opened.
7. On the 5th and 6th August paragrapha appeated in the Canton
newspapers to the effect that a plot had been discovered in Hong
kong among the Indian troops to raise a revolt and that the
movement had been quashed by arrests made by the Government.
I immediately wrote to H,M's Consul General at fanton and asked
him procure contradictions of this idle report and the punish-
ment of the editors of the offending newspapers.
I regret to have to add that some wild rumoura obtained
currency among the Chinese in the Colony about the.. same time
concerning an Indian plot to murder high officials on the con-
clusion of the service of Intercession held in the Cathedral on
the 4th August. The arrest or Mirza, a volunteer, no doubt gave
rise to these reports.
8. I have been obliged to withdraw from the prosecution og
the latter under the Army Act. The case rests on the almost
uncorroborated evidence or the informer who will not willingly
appear in Court as a witness.