Copy.
Translation.
Enclosure No. 3 in Swatow No. 27 of June 29th,1927.
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Swatow.
to
H.M. Consul.
1
Swatow, June 11th, 1927.
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Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of today's date informing me that Low Peng Kiah had
been arrested by the Opium Suppression Bureau and had been
released; but that the Bureau had extorted from him a draft
for $1,000 on the Chi Ch'eng Cash Shop. You request me to
cancel the draft and to order the Cash Shop not to cash it.
In reply, I have the honour to inform you that I have
written to the Opium Suppression Bureau requesting them to send the draft to this office for transmission (to you) for
cancellation. But in regard to the question of stopping payment, only the drawer has the power to do this.
I take this opportunity to inform you that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued instructions to the Chao An
Magistrate to ascertain and report whether Low Peng Kiah is actually a British subject or not and that investigations
are now being made. Until the report is sent forward and
the instructions on it have been received, I am unable definitely to recognize him as British and I must formally
request you to take note of this.