hclosure No. 7 in Swatow No. 92 of October 23,
1926
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sir.
RITISH CONSULATE,
SWATOW,
AUGUST 28, 1926.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 23rd instant on the subject of the robbery from
the house of Hr. Teo Yee Swee.
The police report embodied in your letter is, as you
very correctly observe, entirely at variance with the account
of the affair given in my letter of the 10th instant, the
reason being that most of the statements in the report are
misleading, while all reference to the most important points is
omitted. The report is, in fact, entirely worthless, being a
mere at empt and a very poor one - to conceal the gross
inefficiency and outrageous behaviour of the police on that
occasion.
No effort is made to explain why r. Teo Yee Swee was
bound and äragged off to the police station and his feet chain-
ed when he arrived there; or why he was transferred from the
No. 4 Folice Station to the Central Station and detained till
about three o'clock in the afternoon. "o mention is made of
his being compelled to sign a deposition without knowing what
had been written down. Indeed, it would be impossible to guess
from reading the report, that Fr. Teo himself had been arrested
at all. All reference to these insolent acts is carefully
omitted from the police report, nor is any valid excuse offered
for depriving Mr. Teo Yee Swee, a british subject, of the arms
and a munition found in his house, nor for stealing his keys;
and I am surprised that an official of your ank and position
The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs,
SWATOW.
should