CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906 — Page 403

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benu Baroo of vitIam one ent

melo in Sira. Satow's No. 170 of Aril loth, 1906.

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No. 21.

Mr. Scott to Sir A. Satow.

H.. Consulate-ceneral, Carton,

ra March, 1906. Received April 4, 198 b

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air,

I bey to report that the Viceroy sent his Secretary

to me on the 18th instant, ostensibly to convey his

thanks for the friendly action of the Governor of Hong- kong, in suppressing a violent article which had recently appeared in the native Press of that Colony.

The

should he

Governor of Hongkong had compelled the Editor to retract

I the statement, and publish an apology in the paper. assured the Viceroy through his Secretary that the Hong- kong Government would never allow the Colony to become

a basis for sorrilous attacks on his administration.

The real purport of the Secretary's visit however was to induce me to recommend that negotiations in connection with the Canton-Kowloon Railway

resumed in Peking with Tang Shao-Yi. declined to de; and the Viceroy's Secretary then informed me that an Imperial Bdict had been received by the Viceroy directing him to resume negotiations in Canton, and that - should receive on the following day a letter

from the Viceroy to that effect. The Viceroy was anxious

that I should corsmanicate this to you at

nce; and I

undertook to do so immediately on receipt of H.E.'s letter-

This I absolutely

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