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Row 28 APR 13
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 7th. April, 1913.
I regret to have to report that in the early hours of the morning of the 30th. ultimo a most determined attack was made by a gang of about 20 robbers from the District know as Sai Lo, which lies beyond Nam Tau the District Town of San On and which has long been notorious as a hot bed of piracy, on the vill- -age of Ha Tsun in the New Territories in which resides an elder who is the owner of a large oyster fishery in Deep Bay, keeps a large shop in Ha Tsun and is fairly well off.
2.
In June of last year shop was broken into by
a large gang of robbers, and money and jewellery to the value of 84,000 was stolen. It was that robbery that led to the drafting of troops to do patrol work in the New Territories. These troops were withdrawn some time ago. Mr. Tang Chak-hing, the owner of the shop, with whom I have been acquainted since we took over the New Territo~| -ries, asked me in July last for permission to keep some modern rifles for his protection. I willingly granted permission and im- -pressed on him the necessity of resisting any robbers who might attack his shop in the future.
3.
On the morning of 30th. ultimo, the robbers first tried to break in his door, through which they fired several shots. The employees in the shop replied by firing through a loop- -hole, which from an angle in the wall, enfiladed the doorway. The robbers then tried to force an entrance through the tiled roof. Mr. Tang's employees fired up through the tiles and so drove the robbers
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HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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