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on course
within Hongkong waters, but there
standing order which & have seen issued by the Figh Authorities, that, under no ciretas are they to do to, under pain of punishment of the Commanders. Z 3
The evidence of the Police that the Colonial waters have been invadest must be accepted on the ground of probabriity when a smuggler or other vessel has been chasex, butt know of no positive. & invariably, when a junk is porooz of 26, captured, the masters & owners of it azzoim it was in Colonial waters, although, in three cases which were investigated before a mixed Com? tion of the rinks were clearly proved to have teen Zaten in Chinese waters, come distance from Hongkong
there
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there was a moral cortainty that The Third also was, but, the proof being uncertain, the Com? decided in its favor..
Of the cases referred to in this rection & have no
unle
cognizan
+I do not know where the Com?
CC
found the falsehood of the "statements of the Chinese Officials "as to the facts"
No5:4.5 do not know the casle referred to in this section No5. The cases mentioned in this Section, namely those of Chiat - heng-ring, Ny-top-shing & the Hum-chun Fat juntes
Ch
More referred to above in thre latter part of the remarks of Sect. N: 8 of the Report: but the Com t
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ignore the fact that hor of the vessels were carrying wonGaband, namely salt petre, & the Chinese authorities claimed their confiscation on those grounds
alone,
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