CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905 — Page 621

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The "Ch'u Pao" or Hankow Daily Times.

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A more serious complication has arisen over a

newly started Chinese newspaper, the

whose proprietors are a Hongkong registered company,

directors Chinese and one American who signs here as

Chairman of Board of Directors. When it was proposed

to start publication on premises on our Extension, I

warned this managing director, Frost, to be careful

not to let his Chinese editor write seditious or

libellous articles. Frost assured me that he would

have everything inserted in the columns of the paper

translated to him. The editor began by attacking the

Nanking Viceroy for subservience to the Germans and

proceeded by way of calumnies on the Hupe1 finances,

the educational and military authorities, to an eulogy

on an alleged secret society started in Hongkong with

the object of assassinating native officials and

notables in the interior who proved obnoxious to the

Thereupon the Viceroy sent to me di-

Reform party.

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