CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12] — Page 40

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for food. The

The Mame

of the leader has

not yet been ascertained-

the

The town of Cowloon is in the immediate neighbourhood if Aonghong being situated on :-pposite side of the bay, and official Communication has always been carried on between the Police Authorities of this Colony and the Chinese officers

Officers there

Fi

councetion thus long maintained,

longer, and

now exists no

may

cause some inernveniene, as

we have been in the habit

of

handing to the Chief at Cowloon

12 ravious occasions (under Ordinance

7

12 of 1850) Criminals charged with offences against the laws of china.

Under all these circumstances

Ihave felt it, right to report

capture of this

this place.

the

I may add that, having intelligence of the contemplated attack on the previous day, I took the precaution of strengthening the

Police

Lieut

guard and warning Colonch Griffin, the officer in Command of Her Majesty's Troops

in this Colony, but here in Victoria all was quiet and penecable.

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