I have therefore to recommend that the Viceroy be urgently requested to issue immediate instructions to the San On magistrate to effect the arrest of these men. Upon my being informed that such orders have been issued I will send men to Nam Tau to assist the official there in the search for the men, but, if the Chinese authorities are in earnest they will have no difficulty in arresting these men for the country around Nam Tau is ringing with the news of the murder and the population with one voice denounces these men as responsible for the crime.
I recommend that the Viceroy be called upon to bring the men to justice and informed that when they are arrested this Government will forward the witnesses to the Chinese courts to give evidence.
I have &c.
(Signed) F. H. May.
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