CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4] — Page 809

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Ping Shan, 22nd. April, 1899.

Your Excellency.

I submit herewith a translation of a Chinese

petition presented to me here yesterday. As you will see, this

petition is presented by Tang Wong Shi of the Sik Hong vil-

lage in the Ha Tsun District, who complains that her husband

Tang A Cheung, who had been sent from HKong to distribute Your

Excellency's proclamation in the neighbourhood of Un Long,has

been brutally murdered at that place. He was shot there on the

17th. inst, after having been cruelly beaten and his body was

put in a pig hasket and thrown into a stream. Immediately on

receiving this petition, which was presented in person by the

petitioner, accompanied by her son, I instituted enquiries which

confirmed the statements contained in the petition. Two of the

men implicated in the murder of Tang Tsung sz and Tang I shek

had already been known to me as ringleaders in the anti-Bri-

tish movement. Having completed my enquiries, I communicated

the result of them to Col. The O'Gorman, 0.C., and it was deter-

mined to proceed to Ha Tsun in the afternoon and to burn the

houses of the culprits if the elders corroborated petitioner's

statements. I had previously ascertained that all the persons

named in the petition as having been implicated in the murder

had fled from this territory and that their present whereabouts

are not known. We started from here at 4 p.m.with a party of

the H.K.R.under the command of Captain Berger and on arrival

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