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(who is referred to below as Young Kui Wan) and were to give
nap $1 as passage money.
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At this juncture parties of Police arrived with orders from
the Captain Superintendent of Police to search the shipand men for
aras, and to arrest all those found carrying arns. A search was nade
but no aras were found either in the ship or upon the persons of
the coolles.
5.
The master of the ship was informed that the intending passen
-gers were recruits, but replied that so long as their fares were paid
be did not care how many went, ultimately the $300 was banded to the
ship's Compradore to disburse to the so-called recruits ofter the
vessel's departure, and about 400 of the men, Chu Ho among them
left in the steamer for Canton.
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At 10 p.. the sans night Inspector Stanton was informed
that a large quantity of arms had been recently purchased at the
Tung Tak shop in HongKong by Sassoon's Compradore and shipped to"
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Canton in the "Powan" that evening. He made enquiries and found that in
fact a considerable quantity of arms had been recently purchased
at that shop by one Yeung Kul Wan, a clerk in Messrs. D. Sassoons
Office, referred to above as Yeung U Shan. He reported to the Captain
Superintendent of Police who telegraphed the information to Her
Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton and also informed the Kowloon
Custoas Authorities.
Next day Inspector Stanton was informed by a man named So
Ku that he had been some tice previously asked by Chu Ho to assist
in recruiting soldiers for the Chinese Government at $10 a month,"
which