COPY.
No.61.
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From Commissioner of Foreign Affairs.
To H.M.Consul General.
2nd November, 1925
Received November 3rd.
Ch'en Ch'iung-ming and Wei Pang p'ing: request for their expulsion from Hongkong and suppression of their activities.
Sir,
I have the honour to inform you that
the National Government has just received a confid-
ential report stating that the rebels Ch'en
Ch'iung-ming and wei Pang-P'ing have gone into
hiding in Hongkong where they have secretly established
an organisation for plotting nefarious activities
in the hope of promoting disturbances in Kuang-tung, and I have been instructed to take the matter up with you.
I would observe that the real reasons
why soldiers have caused shutter misery to all living beings in Kuang-tung and Kuang si for year
after year are because such rebels as Ch'en and Wei,
whose savage deposition is not dead, are very keen on stirring up insurrection, and because Hongkong permit them to establish organisations for stirring up strife, with the result that they have acquired a base of operations for displaying their frightful- ness. The robbers, apart from the fact that the Canton disorders are not yet over, are assuredly a calamity for Kuang-tung, and are also far from being a blessing to Hongkong. I take this opportunity of raising the question and of lodging an emphatic
に
protest.