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wh iment tasty Av mare vida You?'s lif: leo 230 applied to the Captain Superintendent and Acting Sergt. McAulay is quite wrong in thinking that the witness he refers to did apply it to me. The term that the witness used was Tai Yan "Great Man", the common term of respect applied by Chinese to officials of rank.
I attach a statement from the Interpreter who interpreted at the examination of the witness to whom Acting Sergt. McAulay apparently refers, and you will see that Mr. Fung Yuk Kau's recollection coincides with mine.
In paragraph 15 the Petitioner says that the punishment meted out to him is in excess of the offence of which he has been found guilty. I can only say that I consider the Petitioner extremely fortunate in having escaped a criminal prosecution.
If any corroboration is needed of the evidence adduced at the enquiry, I beg to remind you that it is to be found in the statement made by Yeung Kai (vide my Confidential letter of 28th September, 1897) a witness whom I was unfortunately not able to procure till a long time after the enquiry into the Petitioner's case.
In conclusion I would point out that as stated in my minute of the 8th September last in CSO2077 of 1897 there is only one instance in the history of the Force of a Police Officer who had been dismissed being granted pension. The circumstances of that case were peculiar and are detailed in the minute referred to.
1st Nov. 1897.
J. H. May