CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8] — Page 125

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 16th. July, 1915.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

32/5, of your cypher telegram of the 14th. July, a paraphrase of which

is enclosed, regarding the Indian agitator Bhagwan Singh.

You

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2.

I reported in my Confidential Despatch of the

18th. June that I had been informed that this man was in Manila and

that I was endeavouring to arrange for his deportation. The

Philippine Government subsequently notified me that he had left

Manila for Nagasaki on the 17th. June, that they had informed His

Majesty's Consul-General at Manila to this effect, and that they understood that the Consul-General had telegraphed to His Majesty's

Consul at Nagasaki. I thereupon addressed a despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio, asking whether arrangements could be made for Bhagwan Singh's deportation, and I at the same time wrote to His Majesty's Minister at Peking asking that similar steps might be taken, if Bhagwan Singh should proceed to China, as was considered probable. I also addressed His Majesty's Minister at

Bangkok, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, and the Govern-

-ment of Netherlands-India.

3.

If Bhagwan Singh should be deported to this

Colony arrangements will at once be made with the Government of

India for his deportation to India.

4.

I may take this opportunity to inform you that

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.-P.,

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