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forwarding a statement regarding the alleged abduction from thes Colony of a Chinaman named ~ Ch'an Tim. In this statement
man in
the wife of the
question declares that he left his house
on
the 5th February ultimo, having been induced to go to the shop of a -person called Fongsam. His wife seeing that her husband did not
return, became anxious, and, on
inquiry
at this shop,
was
informed
that he had been arrested by
Chinese authorities. At the
Ja me
the
time a letter was received from the man himself stating that he had been forcibly taken from
a
shop
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shop in Hongkong, put on board a launch, and taken to Canton, where
he was
- brought before the Prefect, and committed to Gaol.
On receipt of the report of
the Registrar General, I forth with directed the Police to make stringent inquiries into this matter. The Captain
Superintendent (Mr. Deane ) reported
that Ch'an Tim
was
was in the
the Colony up
to the 5th February ultimo, but there reason to believe that he had been in prison from that date,
every
but that there was no evidence to show that force him to leave the Colony. A further
was used to cause
minute was also received from the
Registras