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Copy of a letter from Sir Stichark Mac Donnell with various documents having reference to the evidence given by Mr Thomas Fitz Roy Rice, Assistant Superintendent of Police in Hongkong, before the Police Commission appointed to enquire into the Organization and general condition of that Force.
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I must state that prior to the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, I had formed a very unfavourable opinion of Mr. Rice, and had strong reason to doubt the truth of his own account of his antecedents.
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Having framed the questions contained in the paper marked A, I sent for Mr Rice on the 25th September, and in the presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary informed him that it was necessary for me to ask him certain questions touching his evidence before the Police Commission. I further informed him that, to obviate any possible misunderstanding, I had reduced my questions to writing, and would take down his answers in a like manner.
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Mr. Rice having failed to induce me to enter upon
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