To
C.O.
11445 452
REC? by RECP & MAY 19
The Right Honourable
MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
The Petition of William Stanton of 5 Coral Street,
Saltburn, Yorkshire, late inspector in the Police Force
of Hongkong.
Respectfully sheweth;
1. That on the 4th January 1898 your Petitioner had the honour to forward to you a petition setting forth the facts under which he had been unjustly dismissed from the above named Police Force, with loss of the pension he had earned, and praying that you would either direct a new and proper trial, or else your Petitioner's reinstatement in the Police Force with leave to resign on the pension he had legally and fairly earned.
2. On the 10th of September, 1898, and before your Petitioner had received any reply to his petition, he received from the Acting Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong copies of three statements alleged to have been made in August and October, 1897, by three men named respectively Lung Lu, Cheng On, and Wong Kwok, and three statutory Declarations, to the same purport as the statements made by the two first named before a Notary Public in Hong Kong and by the last named before the British Consul in Canton, in August, 1898, in his covering letter (#36) the Acting Colonial Secretary stated that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government desired to be furnished with any explanation of their contents that your Petitioner might have to offer before the end of that month.
3. Lung Lu made his statement to the Hon. F.H. May,
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To
C.O.
11445 452
REC? by RECP & MAY 19
The Right Honourable
MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
The Petition of William Stanton of 5 Coral Street,
Saltburn, Yorkshire,late inspector in the Police Force
of Hongkong.
Respectfully sheweth;-
1.- That on the 4th January 1898 your Petitioner had the honour to forward to you a petition setting forth the facts under which he had been unjustly dismissed from the above named Police Force, with loss of the pension he had earned, and praying that you would either direct a new and proper trial, or else your Petitioner's
reinstatement in the Police Force with leave to resign on the pension he had legally and fairly earned. 2.- On the 10th of September, 1898, and before your Petitioner had received any reply to his petition,he received from the Acting Colonial Secretary in HongKong copies of three statements alleged to have been made in August and October,1897, by three men named respectively Lung lu, Cheng On, and Wong Kwok, and three statutory Declarations, to the same purport as the statements
made by the two first named before a Notary Public in HongKong and by the last named before the British Consul in Canton,in August,1898,. in his covering letter (#36) the Aeting Colonial Secretary stated that His Excellency the officer Administering the Government desired to be furnished with any explanation of their contents that your Petitioner might have to offer before
the end of that month.
3.- Lung lu made his statement to the Hon.F.H.May,
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