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:

before

me in chains. A deputy

from

the

Viceroy

and the Vice

Consul were present at the exami.

nation. After

few questions had been asked an auswer was given

which made it impossible to doubt that the man had been

seized and carried off from 31. British Sham Shui-po. Lam Kun,

Mr. Hauson,

who was

ht in

brought

identified Lam Ying

in by

as his brother,

but the manderin refused to have

witnesses examined

the

Hong Kong

except in the presence of the Chinese

Military

men concerned in the

arrest

of

the

man. I intimated,

however, to the Mandarin that as

it had now been made quite clear.

that the prisoner had been arrested. on British territory, there could

not be

any g

uestion as to the

right of the Hongkong Government

to claim his restitution. The same

evening

(

evening

" wrote a despatch to the

Viceroy detailing the nature and

result

of

the interview with his

deputy and Lam Ying,

urging

and

the immediate surrender

of Laine Ying. After waiting until

yesterday for a reply, I sont in

peremptory

demand, which has

produced the

action required

The previous despatch.

a

proposing to give up Lam Ting

under certain conditions, I con.

sidered so

unbecoming

that I

have not communicated its con.

tents to His Excellency the Governor.

I threatened, however, to do so on the 12th if the prisoner

if the prisoner were not

delivered up without delay. The

despatch which I have received this morning from

the Viceroy

ن

very unsatisfactory, and it has to receive consideration. But His

Excellency

the

Governor

is to be

congratulated