We reproduced the other day an article calling attention to the fact that Russian refugees from Manila and Shanghai were beginning to filter into Hongkong, and noting this, Hongkong was seriously perturbed for its future. We now learn from the ''Hongkong Telegraph" that a couple of weeks ago the police there rounded up a destitute Russian who had migrated from Shanghai and packed him back by an Empress boat. Apparently this will be the policy followed in the future, not only in Hongkong but in all ports where authority is in delnite hands—as contrasted with. the somewhat indefinite control here—and whenever caught, destitute refugees will be sent back, to us. The Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, the Colonial Secretary, has practically said so much about Hongkong in an interview with a "Telegraph" representative at any rate he intimated that the local Government did not want Hongkong to become a dumping ground, for destitute Europeans. We do not criticize this attitude in the least, for it is inevitable, but at the same time it is very hard on a place such as Shanghai. Without the foreign authorities being able to utter a protest on their own be-
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