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No
42.
10770
REC
(Frot 6 MAR 15)
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
197
HONGKONG, 21st. January, 1916.
Sir,
1741
In amplification of my cypher telegram of the 11th. instant, paraphrase enclosed, on the subject of disturbances
on the New Territory Frontier in connection with the Anti-Monarchic
-al movement, I have the honour to inform you that about 4.30 p.m.
on the 6th, instant the Captain Superintendent of Police reported
to me that a band of robbers had attacked the Chinese Maritime
Customs Station at Tintin in Mira Bay and had killed the two
European Officers in charge; and that mother band some 250 strong
were on their way to attack the Chinese frontier village of Sha-
-tau-kok where there is another Customs Station. I at once ordered
a strong force of Police to reinforce the Police at Sha-tau-kok
Police Station. They travelled by the 5.15 p.m. train which had
been kept back for a few minutes. On their arrival at Sha-tau-kok Railway Station, which is on the frontier the Police found the two Europeans, who had been reported murdered, and the European in charge of the Sha-tau-kok Customs Station. They stated that the Station at Yintin had been rushed after a volley which was return-
-ed by the Customs Guards about 1 p.m. by a band of some 250 rob-
-bers;
that with revolvers pointed at their heads they had been forced to post up two proclamations, copies of which are enclosed; that the Station had been looted of all the arms belonging to the Chinese Guords two of whom had been wounded; and that the Customs
also on the sheros of Mirs Buy
Station at Kai Chung had been looted. The Head Guard was brutally
murdered
RIGHT HONOURABLE
ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P..
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