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proclamation of the 3rd. instant.

3.

I have also directed the Registrar-

-General to warn Kwok Yik-chi, Ch'an Ch'un-p'ang and Ch'an

Lok-ch'un that they are suspected of complicity in the

recent disturbances of the peace and will be banished if

found to take any further part in the boycott movement: and

finally I have caused Ch'ue Kwan-min to be warned that he

will at once be banished if the "Sheung Po" newspaper

contains any further allusion, open or veiled, to the

boycott. This newspaper had for some time before the riots

occurred been in the habit of indulging in veiled threats

against such Chinese Merchants as did not participate in

the boycott.

4.

On the 14th. instant one of the

leading Chinese Merchants of the Colony handed the

Colonial Secretary a list of six persons who he said were

very prominently connected with the proceedings which led

up to the disturbances of the 1st. and 2nd. instant. The

names of these persons were Hoa Tso-wan, Leung Sui-hing,

Tsang Yan-po, Ch'an Hang-k'iu, Nip Kun-man, and Ng Hin-om.

The information so given to the Colonial Secretary was

confirmed by the Captain Superintendent of Police and in

most cases by the Registrar-General also and their names

had

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