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ex parte in China, at the Canton Consulate, by Yeung Fat, Tang Cheung and ✪ Mi Cheung. Stanton apparently wishes the statements of these three go-betweens denying that they received bribes to pay to the Inspectors to be accepted as literally true and there- fore as absolute proof that he Stanton was not bribed. Quincey however in paragraph 8 of his petition does not appear to be so certain of the honesty of these men as he says "and that is how Tang Cheung, or whoever it was, was able to squeeze the gamblers".
I would call attention to the state
ment made by Yeung Fat to me on the 14th. July 1897 with reference
to Kwai Tau Roi, the man who gave the alarm to the gambling house and also to Yeung Fat's statement that he had known Sham Cha the
head of the gambling syndicate for several years
and