CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887 — Page 238

Dr Marsh wrote to

124

Copies of

this evidence I beg leave to transmit

to your Lordship,

as well as de

copy

of the

note which I addressed

to the Jungli Gamen

with it.

As the act

in connection

act of seizure within

British jurisdiction had still to

be proved, while there would be

no question of the final capture having been effected on Chinese

territory, I thought it best, pending the production of further evidence, to confine my observations to the

grave suspicions which existed

the Capture having been solely

of the

deceit

due to the

means were

within the limite

secretly adopted.

of the Colony by loo a

Sung's captors for the prevention of his

Escape.

Page 235

Shortly after I received Ins Marsh's account

of the affair, he Alabaster, so. In's Consel. at Canton forwarded

a Communication

from

to

a copy of

the Governor

General of Canton upon the subject

of the occurrence

It is dated the

1 of November and contains the

reply of his Excellency to a representation

made to him

on

the

13th of October at Mr Marsh's request by Mr Alabaster's

predecessor

Mr Frater.

The Governor General strongly supported the contention that Wong Fung

had been taken on Chinese Soil and

had.

that