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Seditious Movement among Sikhs at Hankow."

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HÃ....Consul General at Hankow to H-M-Minister No 32 of April 21, 1914.

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Mr J.R.Broadley, a British subject at Hankow in the em

ploy of the Standard Oil Company of New York, handed to me yesterday the letter of which I have the honour to enclose

copy. The informant to whom he refers is a Sikh named Mohd

Azim, a clerk of his, Mr Broadley's, office. This man, lfr Broadley stated, was assaulted on the 19th instant by sore" Sirkk

Sikhs who were inveighing against British rule in India, and

on his return to duty made the disclosures set out in lër

Broadley's letter.

I thought it as well to obtain from Azin a confirma-

tion of his statements, and I instructed Mr Pratt to see the

man this morning at Mr Broadley's office. Azim gave úr Fratt the letter of which I enclose copy.

Mohd Azi will endeavour to procure for me copies and translations of the seditious papers referred to. It arrives, so he says, from Paris through the French Post Office and is

posted by Ishar Singh ( the alleged chief mover at Hankow)

to India for translation through the British Post Office.

It may be possible to obtain information through this source

as to the agent in India.

How far the movement should be considered as serious,

I am not in a position to say. It might be feasible, by means of a search warrant, to ascertain the truth of the assertion that in the Sikh gurdwara" (church)" they have some papers in Gurmukhi which state that thereis going to be a Revolution in India within a few months", but it is obvious that any such proceeding would be resented by the Sikh community. I would

suggest that the aid of Captain Barrett, the Assistant Super- intendent of the Shanghai llunicipal Police, might be invoked; or at any rate that he should be confidentially consulted. Ishar Singh would seem to be an ill-balanced person, who,

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