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Hon. Colonial Secretary,
Enclosure
498
C.O.
31347
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REG? 13 00 10
The Consul for Peru called today and inform-
-ed me that in 1909 there wore disturbances in Peru in connect-
-ion with the Chinese settled there and that thereupon the
Peruvian Government stopped all emigration of Chinese to Peru.
The Chinese Government protested and sent Dr. Wu Ting-fang to
Lima to point out that under the Treaty of 1874 between Peru and
@hina, Chinese were allowed free access to Peru: at the same
time Dr. Wu engaged, on behalf of the Chinese Government, that
no Chinese of the manual labour type would be allowed to go to
Peru. Accordingly under a protocol of the 28th. August, 1909,
it was arranged that Chinese wishing to go to Peru should
apply to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of their province with
full particulars in writing of their status, business, family ·
etc.: that the Chamber should verify these particulars and
forward then to the Taotai of Industry in the provincial
capital, who would issue a passport to the applicant, if his
papers were in order and at the same time send the particulars
under separate letter to the Peruvian Consul, who would
get them by post, examine the man who produced the passport
and then vise the passport.
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Before long the Peruvian Consul at Hongkong
found that the Taotai's signature on the passport could not be
accepted as a guarantee that the bearer really was not a
coolie, and that cases of impersonation were frequent. He
thereupon addressed (strong protest to the Canton Chamber of
Commerce, who forwarded it to the Viceroy. The Consul also saw
Dr. Wu Ting-fang, when he recently passed through the Colony,
and Dr. Wu wrote to the Viceroy insisting that the pledges given
by him on behalf of China should be observed.
As the result of this action, the Viceroy
decided to station in Hongkong a "prefect of the Canton Foreign Bureau", to verify all cases. This official has not yet called
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