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PEKIN G.

Rent 27 NOV 03

1st October 1903.

Your Highness:-

I have the honour to inform Your Highness

that I have received a despatch from His Excellency

the Governor of Hongkong acquainting me with a ser-

ious violation of the territorial rights of the

Colony committed by persons acting under the instiga-

tion of certain Chinese officials with the connivence

of the Chinese Admiral Ho.

It appears from the Governor's despatch

and from the documents that accompany it that the

ringleeder of the plot to murder certain Chinese of-

ficials at Canton last Chinese New Year, the dis-

covery of which was due to information given by the

Hongkong authorities, was a certain Hung Ch'üen-fu or

Hung Ch'üan-kuel, who escaped arrest and went to

Hongkong. For his arrest a reward of $30,000 was

secretly offered by the Provincial Treasurer of Can-

His Imperial Highness,

Prince Ch'ing,

&C.,

&c.,

&C.,

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