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TELEPRORE.
BY TIVERTON.
KNIGHTSHAYES COURT, TIVERTON. NORTH DEVON.
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March 27, 1915
LONDON. 8.T.
13476/1915
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The Under Secretary of state,
817,
Colonial Office,
I have to thank you for your letter of yesterday.
I am quite disappointed to know that the Hong Kong authorities propose to make such a very small grant to the father of the man who lost his life in their service owing to an accident with a service pistol which, according to the evidence given at the inquest, was declared to have been defective for as long as eight
months before the accident.
I have not the account of the inquest before me as I sent it up to you last October but I can't help hoping you will agree that the question may be fittingly reopened on the ground that
the pistol was I believe
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admitted to be defective and that the
fact mentioned in paragraph No. 2 of your letter to me does not controvert the evidence given at the inquest on this point but only mentions that at the last monthly inspection the defect was not
discovered.
The lad who was killed was my keeper's only son and you