Sir,
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YEUNG KUI-MAN MURDER CASE: Arrangements with Hongkong Government as to prosecutions to be instituted in connection with
His Majesty's Consulate-General,
Canton, 11th July, 1904.
With reference to your Despatch No.15 of May 10th, I have the honour to state that I have been in correspondence with the Hongkong Government on the subject of the Yeung Kui-man case, and that on July 7th, I paid a visit to Hongkong to discuss it personally with His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.
Mr May and I have agreed that the charges against Tung Tseung and Ng Lo San should be prosecuted; but before taking any steps, we decided that the Hongkong Police should endeavour to ascertain where these two men are to be found.
The evidence against Ng Lo San is weak, but his connection with the crime was notorious, and it would, I think, be less disadvantageous to proceed against him and fail than to take no notice of him. There appears to be sufficient testimony available to establish a prima facie case against him in a Chinese Court; and it will be open to me, under the circumstances, to point out to the Viceroy that there are clues to his proceedings in Canton in connection with the murder which the Chinese Authorities, and not the Hongkong Government, are the proper persons to follow up.
[Signature of] Ernest Satow, G.C.M.G.
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