predecessor forwarded: succinct statements of the depositions and expressed it as his opinion that I would no doubt ere the necessity of ordering by telegraph the immediate release of the person concerned to be followed
e punishment
by
olit
investigation and due
If the offending portion.
Having carefully read the whole case I find that the despatch speaks of
unwarrantable detention and
to Chinese Kowloon and
there. In that case
said
offender
Territory.
conveyance
forcible landing
e the place where the
was arrested is Chinese
• the despatch contains a
distinct statement, it affords clear proof
this point and it would be useless to
& discussion.
Another alive speaks of -
unwarrantable detection within
Hongkong
water,
wa
From the enclosures
I find that Hu Sa deposed that his brother He Hing
was a
passenger on
board the passenger steamer "
Chin
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"Thin Ling " from Hongkong to Ching How
and that
on
arrival at Kowloon he
was
dragged
on-
shore. The
very fact,
of his own will,
therefore, of Hee Hing being a passenger
shows that he
was
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and that he was not arrested and
taken
on
people
072-
are
board the steamer. When
a
passenger
boards
a
vessel they must wait till the latter's arrival at a port before they separate. Having board the vessel, there
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I
not detained on
$
was in detention
for breach of the law.
vessel deposes
and therefore
Again, the master of the
that the boat
was
hired by
an
official
for $3, and that permission
"permission was granted to take other passengers. There is clear
evidence then that those who are said
to have arrested Hee Hing and Au Hing himself were at first the only passengers. If they had wronged the arrest, is it reasonable that they would have allowed other passengers
on
board
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