The seizure and trial of Triad Society leaders shows that the police authorities are on the alert and that Colonial authorities do not intend to be again caught napping the matter of risings and attacks la the New Territory. For some time past a plot hus been hatching to get up " general supported by a raid from Tungkoon, e-place in the 10th Chinese moon (vext month), the Triads taking " leading part in the arrangements and being sup: such an a part in the last attempt parted by the Tungkoon gentry who took
to resist British authority.
Two Chinese Buddhist priests have for some time been training Yodies of men in ug the territory adjacent to that occupied by the British, the said two priests making visits to the colony at intervals to negotiate vith their local adherents and to arrange for the purchase and forwarding of arms to the districts in Sanon as yet unoccupied by British troops. Curbines lire forwarded. in rolls of piece-goods and cartridges are carried in bundles of matches, the niatch boxes being filled with them.
The above shows the advisability of pushing the frontier of the Colony up to the high range of hills dividing Sunon from hoon, where all these plots are hatched and fostered, and likewise the taking over of all outlying islands which could be utilised by bad characters, as places of refuge and for holding meetings where plots the good order of the colony can be ed out of reach of the arm of the The troops stationed in the Samohun district, which had been reduced to a-few men, under the impression that all attempts at risings were ut an end, were reinforced on Thursday last by two Iaunch-fulls of men and it is not likely that the military authorities will again be lulled into a false sense of security.
An unusual feature of the present plot is that the bulk of those concerned are Hakkas.
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