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eAlthough the warrant
under which the
prisoners
doners were
arrested only changes them with
muriter
the evidence
yet prove that they
goes committed
to
robbery
as well.
The evidence
given before me
does not disclose that the offence
with which the
charged
was in
are
prisoners
any way of
: political nature but I have
a
very
strong reasons to believe that such
し
was the case, and that, the
prisoners were concerned in the
Triad revolt at Nim-shan in February last
On 13th April A.D. 1884
A
another man
from
me
to
Bubenclosure received a com
Major General Tang asking. issue a warrant for the arrest of these same two prisoners and ~ for having committed against the laws of China at the same time and place where and at which they are now charpt with having committed murder In this communication the crime
a crime
is
distimetty described as a revolt or rebellion (The 34.) against the Government of China". I refused
to grant warrants and the Chinese Authorities appear then to have ___ sent in a further communication (upon which the present warrante
have
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have been granted) in which all : reference to revolt or rebellion has
bun omitted
I have to
(signed) & Alfred G. Wise, Police Magistrate.
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