CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 263

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Government House,

Hongkong, 8th.September, 1905.

As you are doubtless aware there

has been for some months in the Treaty Ports of China an

organised attempt by the Chinese to "boycott" American

goods as a protest against the administration of the United

States law excluding Chinese labourers. This "boycott" has

been a source of considerable inconvenience at some of the

Ports and has not been without danger to foreign trade and

foreign settlements in China.

2.

On the 11th. August a notice ap-

-peared in one of the Chinese Newspapers published in Hong-

-kong announcing a meeting to be held here on the 12th. in

connection with a telegram from Shanghai urging the Chinese

in this Colony to join the movement. As I was advised that

this meeting could not, under section 51 of Ordinance No.3

of 1888, be held without my sanction I caused the promoters

to be so informed.

3.

On the 14th., Mr. Fung Wa Chun,

Chairman

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

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