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Registrar-General to the effect that he had placed himself in Communication with the Reverend.

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9.13. Ost and the Reverend Fong Yat= saxe of the Church Missionary. Society, who are acquainted with Ch'an Tim, and that the latter of :these two gentlemen, who had

received letters from him, believed that he had been betrayed by ~

Jong Lam.

4.

These documents were

transmitted to the Cloting Consul at Canton with the request that he might take such steps as he

might deem

5.6

necessary.

was received

A reply

from

J

H.

G.

J

from

Dr Stance stating that it would,

without more

definite evidence, be impossible to bring home to the Chinese authorities an accusation. of having violated the territorial -rights of this Colony, and asking that, should it be considered. advisable to proceed in the matter, he should be obliged for any

do

hint

to what form his action should take. Accordingly, a further

communication was sent to the Acting Consul, transmitting a letter from the Reverend J. 12. Bot, giving an account of the tortures alleged to have been inflicted on Chan Tim while in Gaol, and a letter from

the

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