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were recured of having attacked and

slundered in the dead of night the

of members.

residences of another brauch of their

イ

in the same village,

Family in the

Leven

cruelly murdered

of

whom were

though

resistance arrears to have

Mo

veen offered.

4.

Feeling satisfied after

A

careful perusal of the deportions taken before the Police Magistrate, that the quilt of the parties had been sufficiently established, I directed that the prisoners should be surrendered.

In his application for

of

the extradition

these prisoners the Viceroy distinctly undertook that " as

"

usual no torture will be used ak

"the enquire" and in the Acting Colonial Secretary's letter to the acting

Consal forwarding the bricovers this

stipulation was

5.

In

exprefly made.

the paragraph

impresion

reading

in the local saper my

was that the report was not true

especially

as it was stated at the same time that the prisoners

surrcustered were not the true

whilst

culprits, evidence could not fail

a berusal of

one

in

my

Sinion

one

the

quilt of the

satisfy any harties"! I thought it my duty

however to address the Acting Consul

ep.