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Extract from the "South China Morning Post 31347
of 28th. June, 1910.
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Alleged Immigration Frauds.
High Official Appointed to Hongkong.
A Threat from Peru »
("Morning Post" Correspondent.)
Canton, June 25.
Prefect Hsueh Yung Nien, formerly in the
bureau of foreign affairs here, has been sent to Hongkong to
investigate the emigration of Chinese to Peru.
He left Canton yesterday in order to take
up his post.
The appointment has been made in consequence
of a strongly worded letter from the Peruvian Consul to the
Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Canton to the affect that the
Taotal of Industry and Commerce had granted certificates to
Chinese travelling to Peru stating that they were bona-fide
merchants, whereas the fact that these people knew neither
Chinese letters nor literature proved them to be coolies.
To send coolies to Peru, he pointed out,
was contrary to the Treaty drawn up between Minister Wu Ting
Fang and the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs on the 21st.
August last year. Consequently the Peruvian Consul requested the
Chamber of Commerce to act bona fide in this matter and take
such steps as would put an end to such emigration, otherwise
he would be compelled to memorialise his Government to stop it
from the other end and to refuse protection to the Chinese in
Peruviña territory.
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