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conduct prejudicial to good order in sending certain accounts
of the war to correspondents in China. He was sentenced to 28 days' detention and was released on medical certificate after 5 days. It was not a serious case.
10.
Under the powers conferred upon me by the Order- in-Council of October 1896, I have deported the German wife of an English resident for sending information concerning the move ments of His Majesty's ships by post to her brother at Swatow. I have also deported a woman of loose character said to be of half Austrian and half American race who is suspected of being a spy and who, in any case, is an undesirable person to have here.
11.
Trade is very bad. The exports of China are very seriously diminished owing to the want of tonnage to
them
carry and to the dislocation of markets in which they are sold. Imports suffer in consequence and also from the want of certainty of their arrival. The real estate market in the
Colony is dead owing to uncertainty as to the future.
I have the honour to be,
sir.
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
H. May.
Ахад
Governor, &c.
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