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Translation,

Note No 12

Veerey to Her Majesty's Consul. N°88, of 29th July, 1879.

Alleged torture of prisoners

I have perused your note asking that the

Prefent's Court

may be again

instructed to

report distinctly, for your information, whether

Henghwripin and the other four really -

had or had not been tortured.

had

The

expression really no torture was used any of them of my last note in reply to both of the two

reference

of the two previous -

sentences, and pointed to all the thirteen -

-

prisoners. The first sentence: Thinghuni prin

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and four others

certainly

were

at

first

evasive