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In Hongking itself several placards have bron posted at the time promising different. rewards from 200 to 300 dollars to them who would have captiered any of the 13 men mentioning the shop where to receive the money by delivering the men; but all the placards

were

- signed by men of xi-ho- -pan's party not by the Chince Government . The thirteen Chinese remained ten months in

from the

Jail and no reclamation cause. Chinese Government at least when the Court asked for it, it could not be produced.

After having been released by order of the

Court in 1887 some

"the thirteen men

of the

remained in Hong Kong for tive years, and

not

2.

any regular reclamation from the

regular-reclamation. Chiccese Government cave to Hong Kong.

But instead of claining them from the

unt

Govornesen

14

Government of HongKong

they

so near to Canton

went to work in England and to move

them

• Marquis Ding to clain thour from the English Government. Why they went there? Has the Chinese Govern

ment or the Jai-tro-

- pass's party which persuaded Marquis. Trong to reclaim them? One of the relatives

and party of Jai-ho- past is a General. To

say

the least it is very suspicious. Lately, the order cause from the Imperial. Government to seize the men and hand them over to the Chinese Govern ment

but even at present after three years time, when the case was dealt at the Police

Count in these last days not a document could at the begining of the

case be

produced from the Chinese Government,

de

and the eleven prisoners have one se

to

......