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Minute by the Captain Supt.of Police.
Hon. Acting Colonial Secretary.
I have informed the Sergeant Major, but I must
ask that H. E. the Officer Administering the Government will be pleased to move the Secretary of State to reconsider his deci- sion in reference to P. Cs. Au Hing and Hau Hang, as I cannot believe that the peculiar circumstances under which these men confessed can have been clearly brought to the notice of the Secretary of State and in my opinion it would be neither po- litic nor equitable to dismiss these men summarily and with- out pensions, solely be cause they have admitted that they re- ceived bribes from the Wa Lane Gambling house.
To take the first view, I submit in the first place that if these men are treated with such rigour, then it will be impossible in the future ever to get Chinese or any Policeman of other nationality to turn Queen's evidence in similar circumstances.
In the second place, I would remark that to hope to get absolutely honest Chinese Policemen is futile. The profession of a Policeman is one that is looked upon with con- tempt in China, and for many years to come, at any rate, this Government will have to continue to draw its Chinese Police from the same low stratum of Chinese Society as it does at
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