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My Lord:-
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HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S CONSULATE
MANILA, P. I.
PEG 26 JUN 02)
28 th. April 1902.
I have the honour to inform your Lordship
that the British Steamship Kaifong" belonging to
Messrs. Butterfield and Swire of Hongkong was found on
her arrival at Cebu a short time ago to have one hun-
dred and thirty-two stowaways on board, all of them
Chinese labourers, whose landing is prohibited in the
Philippines.
These persons not appearing on the ships
manifest the vessel was fined five hundred dollars
gold and a further fine threatened. A bond for
Seventy-two thousand dollars gold was entered into by
the owners that the stowaways should not be landed in
the Islands and a guard put on board at the owners
expense until the vessel should return to Hongkong.
The case was a particularly bad one as a
The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G.,
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