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CONFIDENTIA L.

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Rea 17 JAN 12

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 11th. December, 1911.

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Sir,

In continuation of my Confidential Despatch

of the 29th. ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that this

Colony has during the past month been the scene of considerable

disorder of a novel kind which in my judgment has necessitated

recourse to exceptional measures for its suppression before it

reaches a more dangerous stage.

2.

On November 29th. I summoned a meeting of my

Executive Council and I attach a copy of the minute as recorded.

The next day at a meeting of the Legislative Council the Ordi-

-nance which I have the honour to submit herewith was passed. The

reasons for its introduction and the objects in view are oriefly

stated in the enclosed extract from the "Hongkong Daily Press"

reporting the speech I made in Council.

Enclosure 1.

nclosure

3.

You will observe that I referred to 3 cases

of assaulting the Police and commented on their exceptional

nature. These occurred on the 16th., 20th. and 23rd. ultimo.

Since then there have been a great number of cases of stone- -throwing at Police, of attempted rescues of criminals, and

finally of stone-throwing at the military sentry on the Magazine.

I attach a list of some of these but it is necessarily incomplete.

The most serious form, however, which this

Enclosure 3.

4.

outburst of ill-will has assumed is the large number of deliberate

insults to Europeans both men and women, but especially to

European ladies, accompanied in some cases by violence. It is in

the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, E.P.,

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