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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 23rd. November, 1911.

I have the honour to inform you of events in

connection with the recent Revolutionary movement in China in so

far as they concern this Colony.

Up to the beginning of the present month the

situation may be summed up in a few sentences. On the 8th. April

last the Tartar General was assassinated and this was followed

on the 27th. idem by an attempted rising in Canton which was suppressed by drastic methods and wholesale executions ordered by the Viceroy, and carried out by admiral Li Chun, Commander

of the Forces. A large number of persons connected with the propaganda had arrived in Hongkong from various directions, mostly it is believed from the Straits Settlements. The Viceroy implored me to prevent these people from going to Canton (vide my Confidential Despatch of the 4th. of lost hay) end to deny

them all asylum here. I instituted detective measures, in order

to inform myself of what was going on, and in some cases where

a coterie of new arrivals appeared to nave rented premises in order to netch revolutionary plots, I let them understand that

this Colony could not be made the base for such designs, and that unless they left voluntarily I should take steps to banish them.

This resulted in ridding the Colony of the more prominent of

these men. The local Chinese papers with only one exception were strong partisans of the Revolutionists and I instituted proceed-

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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