CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7] — Page 439

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bodies were thus found in the morning.

9. The regulation, then, prescribed by the Venice Convention for totally different conditions, is mischievous in Hong-Kong, and is calculated to produce the result that it was intended to prevent, while at the same time inflicting an injury to the trade of the port, the extent of which may be realized if we accept the statement made to me by business men who know intimately the state of the Colony, that from the third port in the world an exodus has taken place of from one-fourth to one-third of the working Chinese within the past three months.

10. For these reasons, however theoretically advisable the provision in the Venice Convention may be, I earnestly urge that discretion be left to the Governor of Hong Kong to ignore it in reference to Canton in the interests of public safety when the Viceroy of that province agrees in the advisability of such action.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient

Humble Servant,

Harry Blake

GOVERNOR, &c.

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433 bodies were thus found in the morning. 9. The regulation, then, prescribed by the Venice Convention for totally different conditions, is mischievous in Hong-Kong, and is calculated to produce the result that it was intended to prevent, while at the same time inflicting an injury to the trade of the port, the extent of which may be realized if we accept the statement made to me by business men who know intimately the state of the Colony, that from the third port in the world an exodus has taken place of from one-fourth to one-third of the working Chinese within the past three months. 10. For these reasons, however theoretically advisable the provision in the Venice Convention may be, I earnestly urge that discretion be left to the Governor of Hong Kong to ignore it in reference to Canton in the interests of public safety when the Viceroy of that province agrees in the advisability of such action. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Humble Servant, Harry Blake GOVERNOR, &c.
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433 bodies were thus found in the morning. 9. The regulation, then, prescribed by the Venice Convention for totally different conditions, is mischievous in Hong-Kong, and is calculated to produce the result that it was intended to prevent, while at the same time inflicting an in- jury to the trade of the port, the extent of which may be real- ized if we accept the statement made to me by business men who know intimately the state of the Colony, that from the third port in the world an exodus has taken place of from one-fourth to one-third of the working Chinese within the past three months. 10. For these reasons, however theoretically ad- visable the provision in the Venice Convention may be, I earn- estly urge that discretion be left to the Governor of HongKong to ignore it in reference to Canton in the interests of pub- lic safety whe the Viceroy of that province agrees in the advisability of such action. I have the honour to be, sir, Your most obedient Humble Servant, Hurry Arshake Анир GOVERNOR,&C.
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bodies were thus found in the morning.

9. The regulation, then, prescribed by the Venice

Convention for totally different conditions, is mischievous in

Hong-Kong, and is calculated to produce the result that it was

intended to prevent, while at the same time inflicting an in-

jury to the trade of the port, the extent of which may be real-

ized if we accept the statement made to me by business men who

know intimately the state of the Colony, that from the third

port in the world an exodus has taken place of from one-fourth

to one-third of the working Chinese within the past three

months.

10. For these reasons, however theoretically ad-

visable the provision in the Venice Convention may be, I earn-

estly urge that discretion be left to the Governor of HongKong

to ignore it in reference to Canton in the interests of pub-

lic safety whe the Viceroy of that province agrees in the

advisability of such action.

I have the honour to be,

sir,

Your most obedient

Humble Servant,

Hurry Arshake

Анир

GOVERNOR,&C.

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