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privately to express his anxiety that these Jerocious criminals should not be allowed to escape, and Corporal Pang has called

upon

me

this moming to request

OVL

-

ཝཾ,ཡ

- behalf of the Viceroy that the preliminary

be held and the examination

may criminals surrendered with as little

delay as possible.

-Sergeant Tang went down under

the direction of the Viceroy on Saturday (with a semi-official note from this office to the Captain Superintendent) in order that he might be of.

of

service in securing

arrest of all the

prisoners.

the early

I have te.

H.

(signed) W. F. Hance,

Acting Consul.

Translation

N. 76.

Viceroy 40 H. M. Consul.

25th May, 1879.

Rendition of 13 Murderers

On the 24th of May the Viceroy received

Petition from Tang-On-Pang Acting Colonel of Canton, to the effect that in connection with the case where Hung-Ch'in-pat and other injured parties residing in the Pinesi magistracy had lodged accusations of murder, abduction, and robbery with violence against Hunghailin and a number of other ferocious scoundrels, repeated instructions had been received from the Viceroy to have the Criminals brought to justice w

within

reasonable time; that the Colonel had

a.

Aug.

šep.

ct.

ee.

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