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In the month of November, 1900, an attempt
- or to
was made to blow up the Tartar-General's Yaman. A young man
nmmed Shia Ching Yu,aged 22 was arrested and having been tor-
tured several times at length confessed that he had met a na
named Yeung Ku Wan in Hongkong, who immediately appointed him
Chief of the conspiracy in Canton. The whole story was in--
probable, but there was one statement in the 'Confession*
that might be verified. He had stated that money was sent
to him through the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to the Branch
Bank at Skameen, One Thousand Taels at a time. I saw Sir
Thomas Jackson, the General Manager, who searched the books
here, and who wrote to the Agent in Shameen, the result show-
ing that no money had been remitted to Shih Ching Ju
any other Chinese man for the past two years. The correspon-
dence with the Consul-General shows that it was apparently
contemplated that on such a flimsy ground as such a statement
made under torture, extradition would be granted. On the 31st.
December, the Consul-General forwarded a further Despatch on
the subject; but on the 10th. January, all possible difficul-
ties of extradition were obviated by the murder of Yun Ku Wan,
a British subject and a teacher of English, by a nan who fol-
lowed four students into the room where the teacher sat to
receive them, and then and there fired five shots from a
Revolver all of which took effect upon Yun Ku Wan, who died
two or three hours afterwards, having first made a statement
on which enquiries are still being prosecuted.
As I still declined to surrender the
prisoners without the substantial guarantee of the presence
of
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