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of a special Ordinance of the degislature of Hong Kong 10 be passed, ander.

section: I of the Chuese Passengers Act 1853, after consultation with,

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July 12:45

My Lord:-

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July 29th, 1893.

In May last Mr C! F. R. Allen, Her Majes-

ty's Consul at Chefoo, drew my attention incidentally

to certain abuses connected with the Chinese pas-

senger traffic from that port. The province of

Shantung, of which Chefoo is the Treaty Port, is a

poor district, and it appears that in consequence

of this poverty a large exodus of the peasantry

to Chinese and Russian Manchuria takes place every

spring. The lure of last year's crops in the

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Chefoo neighbourhood added largely to the number of

coolie emigrants this spring, with the result that

the steamers of all nationalities trading to Port

Arthur (a Chinese Naval station on the opposite

coast of the Yellow Sea), Newchwang and Wladiwostock

were very dangerously overcrowded.

The Earl of Rosebery. K.G.

&C.,

&C.,

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