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made.

That No.47 did duty on the Canton wharf.

That No. 6 was stationed at Saiyingpun when

Sham In was arrested.

That No.12 was in charge of the gambling Dis-

trict in which Kwai Wa Lane is situated.

That No.1 did duty on the Canton wharf.

That there was a new No.43 in the Force who

was a Detective Sergeant.

That No.3 had gone home on leave.

That No.89 when in the Central District was

in charge of the gambling section in which Wa Lane is si-

tuated, and that his name was Mann.

rectly informed.

In all of these items he was perfectly cor-

(d) The innumerable abbreviation; in the list

which render it to a large extent unintelligible to any one but the writer. The designation of the principal Chinese re- cipients on the list by their surnames only, and in some

cases even still more obscurely by their family names and

nicknames (as in the case of some of the clerks at the Ma-

gistracy and various Police Officers).

Hau the list been a bogus one it would have

been the writer's object to make it quite clear who the per-

sons said to be bribed were.

(e) If the list was not genuine why should

the