No. 308.
B.
sir.
COPY
GOVERNMENT HOUTE,
Hong Kong.
17th August, 1927.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your telegram and note of the 13th August, 1927, on the
subject of the robber chief Lau (Liu) Lun (
2. This man was duly arrested by the Hong Kong Police,
but the flaw in the Chinese Extradition Ordinance about
which we have been in correspondence seemed so unlikely to
escape the legal advisers of this well-to-do fugitive that
only banishment proceedings were instituted against him and
he was released on bail of $10,000 cash with the stipula-
tion that he should report to Police Headquarters every
alternate day pending the decision of the Govannor-in-Coun-
cil.
3.
Lau Lun has failed during the last few days to
comply with this stipulation and has in all probability left
the Colony, in which cano steps will of course be taken to
estreat his bail, which I may say is a very heavy one for a
deportation case. I regret that he should thus have eluded
us, but I venture to think the solution of the difficulty
not altogether unsatisfactory. Even if deportation had been
decided upon, the choice of destination would have rested,
not with this Government, but with Lau Lun who would certain-
ly not have selected Canton. The resulting position would
have been even more difficult of explanation to the Cantonese
authorities than his disappearance.
I have the honour to be,
Sir
Your most obedient servant, (sd). C. Clementi.
Governor, ac.
HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S CONSUL-GENERAL.
CANTON.