CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6] — Page 33

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Sir,

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With reference to your Confidential Despatch

of the 13th. of March, I have the honour to explain that my object in suggesting the amalgamation of various Chinese Associations in this Colony into one Central Society is to devise a means for the more efficient control of these associations and to prevent them from meddling in Chinese politics.

2.

Since I assumed this Covernment I have found that the District Societies, with possibly one or two exceptions only, are hotbeds of political intrigue, the most prominent offender being the Sze Yap Society, and it has been borne in upon me on several occasions that owing to the impossibility of getting evidence of such political intriguing, the Government is powerless to deal with offending societies under section 16 of Crdinance No. 47 of 1911.

3.

I have lost no opportunity of impressing upon the leading members of the Chinese Community that they must not meddle in Chinese politics. I have addressed numerous remonstrances, through His Majesty's Consul-General, to the Government at Canton

against their direct commmication with the Chinese population of this Colony on such matters, and I spoke to the Governor-General himself on the subject on the occasion of my visit to him reported

in my Confidential Despatch of the 31st. of January. My admonitions

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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