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accordingly widely offered resourds to all persons who would give information, and had despatched detectives in all directions As track out the offenders; that he had received information from his spies
now
that
the chief Criminal Hung Kei-pin and the numerous members of his
gang Kung- Asam te. were now lying concealed in Hongkong, where the spies suggested they might be surprised and taken; that the Colonel at once directed Tang On, Sergeant of Police on the
Yiin Ising Circuit and Isu-
Isim
sit - Yin one of the gentry belonging to the Sit-Yin LuK P' sub-district, As proceed with all -speed by day and night in company with
the plaintiff and the spies to Hongkong, and to ask that the men
might be arrested there
on the first favourable opportunity, failing
which to shew
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was intended,
sign of what but to secretly and carefully dog the stops of
the offenders so that they might not get ~
away.
Aug.
The Colonel reports that the said Sergeant Tang on has now petitioned to the effect that, in conjunction with the foreign Sep police, he has taken into custody the following
leading criminals in connection with this case, vir: (names in
margin),
and
that, after a preliminary examination before the foreign Officers, they have been lodged in gaol pending the receipt at Wonghong of the Viceroy's Despatch, after which they
be sent to Canton for trial.
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The Colonel begs that the Viceroy will
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