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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 31st. January, 1913.

In continuation of my Confidential Despatch

of the 15th. instant, I have the honour to inform you that on the 3rd. instant a fairly representative meeting of Chinese was held at a Chinese Restaurant here, without the necessary sanction of the Registrar-General and apparently at the instance of the Governor-General of Kwangtung, for the purpose of forming a Central Society under the nave of a General Chamber of Commerce or, as stated at the meeting, a Bureau for the collection of voluntary subscriptions (in aid of the Kwangtung Government). It was under- -stood that this Central Society would be recognised by the

Governor-General as eligible to elect delegates (whose number has not been indicated) for the purpose of the representation in the

Chinese Senate of Chinese resident abroad. It was not made clear

how these representatives are to be elected and there is little

doubt that the Authorities in Canton allowed it to be understood

that the Chinese in Hong.ong would be allowed to elect delegates to represent them in the Chinese Senate. Sir K'ai Ho Kai does not

deny that he was approached on the subject of allowing himself to

be nominated as such representative. He replied that the fact of

his being a British subject presented a difficulty which probably

could not be overcome.

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Mr. Lau Chu-pak attended the meeting at the

request of the Registrar-General and pointed out to those present

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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