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the Chinese coast of Mirs Bay during the period of Canton's
worst bolshevization was of inestimable value to this Colony.
Over this route labour, livestock, and vegetables come
steadily to Hong Kong throughout the Loycott, men all other
routes were closed by the pickets.
4.
3. Wong Fuk-chi has been warned that he must be
content to stay quietly in his sanctuary until times change
and he is ag in a persona ruta to the regime controlling
(if control it can be called) the Biss Bay district. Beyond
that I do not at prosent feel justified in ping. He is at
least a tried friend of Hong Kong and the t can be said with
conviction of but very few, if any, of the host of officers
who have flitted over the Canton stage in recent years.
Still more strongly must I object to the language you employ in the case of au un. I should have thought it would not have ben necessary to labour te point that an ex arta statement is not proof of guilt; and I must
remind you tikt a very considerable body of evidence vas before this Government tending to show that u Iun (k)), so far from being a brigand-chief was a leader of local
anti-piracy bande. He was also known as one of those who during the period of the anti-British boycott foul ways and me: ns of mint ining tr de between the Bust liver districts
and this Colony. Such activities are bound to provoke accusations from those whose plans for depredation they upset; and I at loss to understand why, having herd only one side of the case, you should use language reg rding it which is tantamount to an accusation of corruption ag inst ury Governsent. In any event, however, sewing tint the whereabouts of this alleged crimiml are so well known to
your informants, wy do they not take their own LesBures
for