CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12] — Page 555

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take this step were these. Of the persons whose names are

mentioned in my despatch of the 25th. ultimo some were in

the Colony and some happened to be absent at the date the

Banishment orders were issued. As soon as those who were

in the Colony learned that banishment warrants had been

issued against them, they left the Colony, before the

Police communicated with them, with the exception of 3 men

--Ch'an Hang-kiu, Ng Hin-tsz (also called Ng Hin-om) and

Fip Kun-ma!). The first of these went to the Registrar

General and protested that he had taken no part either in

the boycott or in the riots and that he was willing to

publish a statement in the local press to that effect. I

considered his case in Executive Council on the 1st. instant

and the Council unanimously advised that if Ch'an Hang-kiu

published such a statement the banishment warrant issued

against him should be cancelled. The statement, copy of

which I enclose, was made before the Registrar General on

the 3rd. instant and published in the native press on the

4th and 5th. instant. A similar statement, copy of which

I also enclose, was voluntarily published in the native

Re-Press by Yik Chi-kin, a prominent member of the Commerce

Investigation Society, as the Boycott organisation styles

itself.

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