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not see it himself but come one told him and he forgets who that
do me one WA).
The statement in the petition
that "he then saw distinctly" with his
own eyes
that the
"men were
Chinese soldiers
and not pirates" is clearly
aimed to upset
the probability
hinted at in my first conversation with the petitioner.
In the whole I can place no reliance on the petitioner's present statements.
If they are true how comes it that he never made them before when he then had
that it
was most important for the Government's
have
every proof
of the complicity of the Chinese soldiers in the violation
of
territory.
The petitioner from his own
account came into this harbour
at 8 A.M on
the 28th and
left it
in
the evening of the
same
day, but he neither reported his arrival or departure at the Harbour Master's Office and although the junk belonged to shops in Victoria, his junk lay
over at the Kowloon Docks to discharge it. He went out
by Green Island and arrived