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before you for your information the depositions of the Police Officer at You Mati and the other persons and that on receipt of this despatch Excellency's duty to
inquiries
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it
instruct me
was
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to institute
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and
or
to whether on the 12 of the current month (19% of July) any soldiers braves had croseed the frontier. arrested Wu-lan- sou and Teng and to love no time in embodying
explicit report.
result in an
esu
the
Copies of the depositions in question
to
me
has
were also forwarded
The inquiry brought to light that a notorious character In lin dh'i had some time back
rewards were
taken refuge in Foreign territory and that though re
e promised for his apprehension he
arrested.
was never
The petty military officer Asii lien shing at Then Thii po reported to me verbally that Huang
ma
niang
and other
owners
of
stoten
stolen
had on various occasions. goods
laid a charge against the man
Su
-lin. chi for combining with others and robbing but the robber confident on his physical strength and the member of his accomplices
on repeated
Own
had
'occasions penetrated into Chinese derritory with the utmost daring
and that the
complainants had applied. that
soldiers should be stationed at the
frontier to avail themcelves
opportunity,
of
an
with the co-operation of the
soldiers already there, to lay hands
him.
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at once increased the member.
of officers and braves to proceed to the spot and jointly with the soldiers at that station to take timon according to circumstances.
I also
achon
strictly ordered them to be careful and not to cross the frontier
and this
about trouble and complications . Subsequently a report
bring
was lais
before..
Tue
to the effect that on the 129
this