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Enclosure 2.

Sir,

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Registrar-General's office,

Hongkong, 22nd, February, 1904.

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The Honourable

I have the honour to forward herewith for

the information of His Excellency the Officer Administering the

Government translations (with originals) of two extracts from the

Wei San Yat Po and the Sheung Fo newspapers of the 20th. instant,

and to request you to invite His Excellency's attention particular

ly to the portions underlined.

2.

I submit that the publication of such views

is dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony and that

the individuals responsible should be banished from the Colony as

promptly as the law permits.

3.

The "Wei San Yat Po" is a paper of consider-

able standing and has hitherto been run on what are regarded by

the Chinese as orthodox lines and until within the last two years

has never touched on public questions. Its aberration is therefore

all the more remarkable. The proprietor and publisher Mr. Luk Kin-

hong() is I believe seriously ill and absent from the

Colony, but as he is registered as proprietor he ought to have

taken steps to see that the paper was conducted properly during

his absence. I therefore recommend that a banishment warrant be

issued in his case. The manager of the paper in his absence is one Siu (), given name unknown, those of the editors are Bo (15)

and Lux Bim-ho. (1) ). I recommend that banishment warrants be issued for all three of these if legally

possible, but that before they are expelled from the Colony they

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be brought before the Registrar-General to be questioned as to

the Staff of the paper and the persons directly responsible for

the

A. M. Thomson,

Acting Colonial Secretary.