pressure should be put on the Chinese Government to cashier from the public service Li Ka Cheuk who was Commander of the Canton City Guard and organised the murder and Tak the Acting Viceroy of the Two Kwangs under whose authority the crime was committed and who subsequently rewarded the criminals.
He also proposed that the Canton Government should be made to compensate with $50,000 the widow and family of the murdered man.
2.
Replying to this Despatch on the 9th September, 1903, Mr. Chamberlain stated that it was not thought possible by the Foreign Office to ask the Chinese Government to hand over for trial in Hongkong the three persons who were accused of being immediately concerned in the murder. His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking was, however, instructed on the 23rd October to make representations to the Chinese Government in the matter. Sir Ernest Satow then applied to be furnished with particulars from Hongkong and a copy of Sir Henry Blake's Despatch of the 20th June, 1903, was sent to him on the 19th January, 1904. On the 10th of May he addressed to the Officer Administering the Government the Despatch, of which a copy is enclosed, from which you will see that he considered that the evidence brought forward at the trial of Lui Chui justified a demand for the trial in China of Tung Cheung and that it would be possible to ask for the trial of Yeung Tsing Kai, but that there was hardly any evidence at all against Ng Shui Shang. He was very doubtful as to what would be the result of a trial in the Courts of China and considered that in the event of an acquittal "we should have strengthened the belief of the sort of Chinese who hire themselves
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