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by the courte (whose orders in this regard usually read

"to China") and when issuing departmental warrants of

deportation for Chinese will obtain tickets covering &

trip to some port actually within Chinese territory

(Canton or Shanghai) instead of merely to the city of

Victoria in the British colony of Hongkong. With regard

to those furnished with tickets to Canton (who will doubt-

less constitute the bulk of the persons deported, as

most of the Chinese in this country are from the Kwang-

tung province), it is understood that the passengers

would have to disembark and be transshipped in the colony

of Hongkong. To meet this situation arrangements will

be made to cable the American Consul-General at Hong-

king when a party of Chinese is being deported, advising

him of the number in the party and the boat by which

deported, so that he, in trurn, may advise the Colonial

Government at Hong Kong. Then the Colonial Government

no doibt could make arrangements to have the boat met

by police officials, whereupon proper passage through and

out of Hongkong could be arranged with respect to all of

the Chinese except such as the Colonial authorities

might conclude were entitled to remain in the Colony.

In this connection, the steamship company will be asked to

meke arrangements which will insure proper identification

of the Chinese deported under court orders and their

segregation from those rejected and returned from a nited

States port of entry.

With respect to Chinese who embark for the United

States at Victoria, Hongkong, and are on arrival at an

American port rejected and placed on board a vessel of the

line