CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 130

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8

5

reported

on

The Commission.

the

19th instant

that the evidence taken by them (much of it very reluctantly given) established beyond doubt that the

arrests had taken place in

house situated some 60

yards within the border of

British Kowloon; and it -

further evident that

was

the arresting officers must have known of this, inasmuch

they took their prisoners

ad

into

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into China through the gate

in the village of Sham Shui Po, which separates British from Chinese territory.

6.

On this I caused

to be written the Colonial

Secretary's letter of the 21th |

instant to Mr Alabaster (intended to be transmitted by him to the Viceroy) in which a still more urgent demand for the return of

the men was couched in terms which I endeavoured

to

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