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Enclosure No. 8 in Swntow No. 92 of October 23, 1926.
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The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs to Mr. Consul Kirke.
August 23, 1996.
sir,
Rebbery from Too Yee Swee's Houss.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
(of the 10th. instant) relative to the robbery from Teo Yee
Swee's house and the removal of Teo and his servants by the
police to the polion station for examination.
In compliance with my ordors that the Chief of Police
should supply me with a statement of the true faote of the care,
he now reports as follows :
"The robbery toɔk place in the middle of the night.
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the police heard of it, they proceeded (to the house) but could
not distinguish one person from another.
Observing a larre
number of Teo Yee Swee's servants, the police thought this
circumstances suspicious. Koreover, none of them stated.
distinctly that he was in the service of Teo Yee Swee, and they
were therefore taken to the police station for removal to the
Head Office.
Further, as it was then only just dawn, the police
had to wait till daylight and the evidence then taken was duly re-
ported.
"Then the detectives examined the house, they found that the
robbers had smashed the bolt of the gate, rushed up the stone
steps and burst open the door. The orner of the houne was
asked what articles had been lost, but he could not say.
police, thinking that the robbers might have left behind
dangerous wer-pons, made search, but did not break open any
trunks containing clothes ko. Certain firearms and ammunition
were produceû, however, and if Teo has received a licence to
possese arms for self-defence they will, of course, be returned
to him.
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