Copy.
Enclosure No. 7.
See Enclosure No.5.
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Director of Criminal Intelligence,
Sir,
Please see further statement from
Captain E. P. Smith, attached, also result of enquiries
made by District Watchman Fok on. I did not ask for
any further information regarding Lau Hon San as I have
no doubt he is a British subject. I am satisfied from
enquiries made that he had no part in the opium smuggling
on the Wing Hung and in fact was not tolerated in the
Compradore Department of the S.S. "Wing Hung" and seldom
went on board the vessel. He was paid to lend his name
as registered owner but otherwise had no say whatever
in the management of the ship.
Captain Smith does not seem to have
any clear idea as to whether the present proprietor
Pun Chung Kat of the business at No.81 Bonham Strand
West, was actively concerned in the smuggling or not.
All he can say is that he met several persons at this address who gave him orders at to the management of the ship but who they actually are or what their names are
he does not know.
He is now of the opinion that the principal persons actively engaged in the smuggling were the Compradore Lam Shi Cham and his brother Lam ?, Chan Kau Hi and Cheung Cheung (Particulars as regards native place etc. attached) but here again he is not sure of the names. The names given to His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton were taken from the articles and he
does