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(14) Hongkong, which, as you know, before its gesnion to Great Britain, was inhabited by a for handfulld of fishermen, has now a Chinese population of close upon half-a-million souls. The majority of these are British subjects, and all are following the events in the Yest with the deepest concern and interest. That the liberty and protection guaranteed by British rule are appreciated, is invariably show on the occasion of internal disturbances in adjacent Chinese territory, when the

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flock in tens of thousands into the Colony.

(2) In many districts in China proper, which are in close and constant communication with Hongkong, german agents (mostly niguionaries and Consular servants) have been actively engaged in poisoning the minds of Chinese against great Britain and her Allies, but it is a happy circumstance that their propaganda has in ne measure affected the loyalty of the Chiness of Hongkong, who recognise that their future prosperity and tranquility depend upon the success of the Allies' arms, and who, together with the great shipping and comercial communities of the port, realise that their present immunity from interference is largely due to Britain's undisputed supremnoy on the Beas,

(34) The Colony has, from its relatively small European pop- ualtion, given many young men to the new armies raised during the yar, while the members of the Hongkong Volunteers and the Hongkong Volunteer gezerves have willing discharged the obliga- tions imposed upon them owing the withdrawal of the 2nd. Batt- alion of the D. C. L. I., thus facilitating the transfer of that

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