oral/ representations which
them on
2.
avare,
the
erebject.
you
had made to
As Your Excellency is doubtless
the two men who were illegally avrested in Kowloon were on the 29th of -
August handed over in Canton to a Police- Officer of
this Government,
back to Hongkong where they
and conveyed.
were.
of
subsequently charged before the Magistrates with certam offences against the laces China, for which their rendition was demanded, and were finally discharged. for want of sufficient evidence against
3.
them.
I have to convey to Your Excellency the thanks of this Government for your prompt and valuable co-operation in bringing about an amicable settlement of this unfortunate moident, which I sincerely trust will be the last of the kind.
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Ishould mention that the despatch
to Mr Alabaster,
of the Viceroy of the Two Kwango the Consul at Canton, conveys the impression that he acted on his own responsibility in
Concession
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of his
(me)
concession to the demands made by me, as he had notified the Coneul intention to deliver up the men some days before they
Avere
the dates appear his statement.
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actually taken in charge,
to lend.
confirmation to
As he was made aware that I had moved Your Excellency on the subject, the was very possibly influenced by - what he anticipated would be the view
of the Bungli Yamin .
6.
But whatever may have been the
the result is, in
any case,
case, eq
equally
agency by which it was brought about, satisfactory. I have 70
(Signed) G. William Declane,
Governor