Sir:
FOREIGN OFFICE,
Rec C.O. 37040396 Red 15 OCT 03
October 13th, 1903.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies has communicated to me copies of four despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong dated June 17th, June 18th, June 18th and June 19th respectively, with regard to the murder in Hong Kong on January 10th 1901 of Yeung Kui Wan, a member of the Chinese reform party.
You will no doubt have been furnished by His Excellency with full particulars of this case, but I transmit to you a copy of the opinion on the case of Mr Sharp, the Acting Attorney-General.
In view of the serious disclosures at the trial of Lui Chui alias Li Kwai Fan who was sentenced to death for the murder, Sir H. Blake requested Mr. Sharp to consider and advise upon what evidence there was in the possession of the Hong Kong Government, upon which others not yet brought to justice could be proceeded against, and of the alleged
E. Satow, G.C.M.G.,
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