(1) Referring to a telegram from Hsu Shih-yin, Governor of Fukien, ting that since the commencement of the European war, Chinese labourers of the South Archi-pelage have been successively sent back to China, most of them landing at Amoy, and requesting that ised for their relief in having returned home ds of miles away in a pitiful condition, ete:
The said Chinese labourers left their fatherland to seek a precarious means of livelihood elsewhere. Now that they have been sent back without finding a home for shelter, their condition arouses our deep solicitude. Let the said Governor instruct his Finance Secretariat to draw $30,000 from the provincial funds, to be set aside for the purpose of relieving the Chinese labourers of Fukien that have returned to China. At the same time, he shall order the district officials concerned to keep them in order and to prevent troubles.
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