CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 322

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CHINESE LEGATION,

August 10th, 1896.

Dear Mr. Bertie:-

I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your

Note of the 25th ultimo acquainting me that in March

1896, an Order of banishment for five years from the

Colony of Hong Kong was issued against a soi-disant

Chinese Doctor calling himself amongst various other

names, by that of Sun Yat Sen, and that no formal

application for the revocation of the Order had been

made.

In the name of the Chinese Government, I desire

to present to Lord Salisbury my best thanks for this

renewed proof of the friendly disposition of Her

Majesty's Government towards China, and to express

the hope that, during the currency of the Order, no

application will be entertained having for its object

the return of this notorious creator of sedition to

Hong Kong, there to resume his attempts to excite an

insurrection in that portion of the mainland adjacent

to

The Honourable

Francis Bertie,

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