and their conveyance to Canton for "trial, it is apprehended that delay of this sort may be attended with "serious consequences". I therefore "deem it proper, in reporting these "circumstances, to ask, if feasible, 'that His Excellency, the Viceroy "may be moved to urge
JW. Hewlett, the British Consul to write to the "foreign officials at Hongkong and "request them to give over to us "without further delay Yang Pak-mo Kam and the other prisoners that I may convey them to Canton for "trial. The Adjutant-General, in forwarding the above, remarks that Lieutenant Leung Tai, Commandant of the Kuang Au steamer was sent to
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Hongkong under instructions from His Excellency the Viceroy to receive and bring to Canton Yang Pak-mo Kam and other criminals, and
that having now reported that he has waited in Hongkong for a long time while the rendition of the prisoners has been unduly delayed, "it becomes the duty of the Adjutant-General, in representing the matter to His Excellency, to request that Mr Hewlett, the British Consul, may be urged to write to the foreign official at Hongkong with a view to the speedy rendition of the criminals and their conveyance to Canton for trial.
With reference to the foregoing the
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