CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 557

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together a body of rebels in Hongkong to proceed into the

interior and join the disaffected people in fomenting a re-

bellion.

The recent disturbances at Huangkang were really

the work of the rebels, thirteen of whom were captured

and executed at Hui Chou Fu, after admitting that they

had come frm Hongkong.

I immediately telegraphed the statement as to Sun

Yat Sen's presence in Hongkong to the Officer Administering

the Government of the Colony, d I have now received a

reply stating that the police have been on the watch

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for him for four weeks but that he has not arrived.

arrival he will be banished.

Sun Yat Sen is the person who was forcibly detained

in the Chinese Legation in 1896 and who formed the subject

of the Marquess of Salisbury's despatch No. 290 of December 16 of that year.

I have the honour to be,

With the highest respect,

sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant

(Rigned) J. N. Jordan