16ole.
" information to hire at att? Now I appretuos that in speaking of these charges
"more matters of hearsay "," Mr May does
not use
the
Avard
" hearsay" in the technical
sense in which Mr Day
He
understands it
uses it; perhaps not very correctly. to express his feeling that mow matters
mere
"casual remark in the Course of conversation,
of casual
having
no recors save in the car of him
4
who heard them, wen the sole basis of these Sparticular charges, and I must state my opinion that these charges, as laid, do not fairly represent the tenor of alls alleay's Conversations with Mr. Anstey as recapitulated inthetboys' Evidence, (spp. 84, 85) and that
the Committee might perfectly
well.
believe
437 167
Mr May's statement of the information
given
him
on the subject of "Change".
18 and
19, and still consider those charges " themselves to have hun brought without any grounds.
whatever
"Charge" 18 is
As
" follows : - "With boving.
" informes Mr Abay, that he, Mr Caridicall Member of a Secret - Sovidly. Now the obvious meaning of this is
"Meas a
that according
to Mr. Caldwell's
statement he was, at the time of matting-
that statement, a member of one of thre
Secret Chinese Secieties which are
suppand
to bind their members together by such
ties
And
for
such ends as
to make them
improper for Mr Caldwell to horro