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Hongkong.
18th December, 1922.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.607/1922, dated on the 2nd, instant, together with copies of some documents concerning the complaint made by Messrs. Wong Wan Tsan, Wong Shau Hang, Chan Wu and Chan Kau with the intention of recovering a certain amount of money that they paid in order to proceed to Chile, according with the terms of a contract in which the weal or chop of the Compradore of this Consulate was affixed.
You state in your letter that documents bearing such Compradore's sdal must be presumed to be issued under my authority and that, therefore, you have to request from me the
returning of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500,00) to your Office, for the purpose of paying back the said sum of
money to the plaintiffs.
I beg to say, in reply to your letter, that I feel most sorry and that I earnestly trust you will excuse me for not complying with your request, based on the following reasons:-
1. Because the responsibility of this matter is shared by the Consulate for Panama in Hongkong under Consul Mr. Edmundo Molino, the Shipping Company who accepted the plain- tiffe as passengers and Pablo da Silva and the Chinese Lo Shue
Mau, as I pass to explain:-
The above-mentioned passengers for Chile left this
port on the "Rakuyo Maru," which sailed on the 13th December, 1921, under full knowledge that the emigration of asiatics to
Chile The Hon. Claud Severn, C.M.G..
Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong.