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question and said that there had not been a meeting at tae

Temple of any kind between Sunday the 25th July and Sunday

the 1st August. On the latter date there was a loyal meeting

in connection with the approaching anniversary of the outbreak

of war at which a subscription for Sikhs wounded in the war

was opened.

7. On the 5th and 6th August paragrapha appeated in the Canton

newspapers to the effect that a plot had been discovered in Hong

kong among the Indian troops to raise a revolt and that the

movement had been quashed by arrests made by the Government.

I immediately wrote to H,M's Consul General at fanton and asked

him procure contradictions of this idle report and the punish-

ment of the editors of the offending newspapers.

I regret to have to add that some wild rumoura obtained

currency among the Chinese in the Colony about the.. same time

concerning an Indian plot to murder high officials on the con-

clusion of the service of Intercession held in the Cathedral on

the 4th August. The arrest or Mirza, a volunteer, no doubt gave

rise to these reports.

8. I have been obliged to withdraw from the prosecution og

the latter under the Army Act. The case rests on the almost

uncorroborated evidence or the informer who will not willingly

appear in Court as a witness.