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FOREIGN OFFICE,

40083 696

Keep 25 NOV 04

November 23rd, 1904.

Sir:-

I laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne your letter 37451/1904 of the 10th instant with regard to the suggestion that certain Chinese subjects concerned in the "Supac" sedition case should be sent to Hongkong on the expiration of the term of imprisonment which they are now undergoing at Shanghae.

You state that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, it would be most undesirable that these persons should be sent either to Hongkong or to the Straits Settlements.

While accepting the decision of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, Lord Lansdowne cannot but regret that the objections, which no doubt exist, to the residence of these men at Hongkong should be held to apply also to the Straits Settlements: His Lordship fears that nowhere in China will their lives be free from

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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FOREIGN OFFICE, 40083 696 Keep 25 NOV 04 November 23rd, 1904. Sir:- I laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne your letter 37451/1904 of the 10th instant with regard to the suggestion that certain Chinese subjects concerned in the "Supac" sedition case should be sent to Hongkong on the expiration of the term of imprisonment which they are now undergoing at Shanghae. You state that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, it would be most undesirable that these persons should be sent either to Hongkong or to the Straits Settlements. While accepting the decision of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, Lord Lansdowne cannot but regret that the objections, which no doubt exist, to the residence of these men at Hongkong should be held to apply also to the Straits Settlements: His Lordship fears that nowhere in China will their lives be free from The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

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FOREIGN OFFICE, 40083 696 Keep 25 NOV 04 November 23rd, 1904. Sir:- I laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne your You letter 37451/1904 of the 10th instant with regard to the suggestion that certain Chinese subjects con- cerned in the "Supac" sedition case should be sent to Hongkong on the expiration of the term of im- prisonment which they are now undergoing at Shanghae. You state that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, it would be most undesir- able that these persons should be sent either to Hongkong or to the Straits Settlements. While accepting the decision of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, Lord Lansdowne cannot but regret that the objections, which no doubt exist, to the residence of these men at Hongkong should be held to apply also to the Straits Settlements: His Lordship fears that nowhere in China will their lives be free from The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

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FOREIGN OFFICE,

40083 696

Keep 25 NOV 04

November 23rd, 1904.

Sir:-

I laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne your

You

letter 37451/1904 of the 10th instant with regard to

the suggestion that certain Chinese subjects con-

cerned in the "Supac" sedition case should be sent

to Hongkong on the expiration of the term of im-

prisonment which they are now undergoing at Shanghae.

You state that, in the opinion of the Secretary

of State for the Colonies, it would be most undesir-

able that these persons should be sent either to

Hongkong or to the Straits Settlements.

While accepting the decision of Mr. Secretary

Lyttelton, Lord Lansdowne cannot but regret that the

objections, which no doubt exist, to the residence

of these men at Hongkong should be held to apply

also to the Straits Settlements: His Lordship

fears that nowhere in China will their lives be free

from

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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