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Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 22nd. September, 1911.

I have the honour to place the following circumstances before you and to request that if you concur representations may be made to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the direction I have indicated.

2.

I found in March, 1908, that the United States Authorities at San Francisco were in the nabit of deport- -ing a large number of men to Hongkong who were on arrival set loose in the Colony without any intimation to this Government. The United States Consul-General here was asked that due notice of the arrival of these deportees should be given and that the United States of Americe should in the case of destitutes

refund the expenses incurred by this Government in sending them to China. In reply he stated that of the Chinese passengers "returned" (sic) from the States there were two main classes,

viz.:-

(a). those refused the privilege of landing in the

United States of America:

(b). those deported, the probability being, as he

maintained, that these were not deported for

crime but because they were illegally found in

the United States of America. He further assumed

that it was probable that these persons had been sent to Hongkong as being the port from which

they came.

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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LEWIS HARCOURT,

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