No.. 259.
[ Ja by
S.O.
01011
Government House,
Hongkong, Qrd
5 WW 00
June, 1900.
376
46038
sir,
With reference to Sir Henry Blake's despatch
No. 142 of the 4th. April, 1900, I have the honour to inform you that the Compradore's Assistant (wrongly described as a Compradore) who was carried off from the steam-launch "Chang Sha" as described in the enclosure to the above despatch, has now been recovered by the Chinese Authorities and sent to Hongkong.
2.
It appears that he was moved by his captors from place to place, and he was finally traced to the neigh- bourhood of Macao,where he was found a few days ago.
3.
In a despatch dated May 23rd., from the Viceroy of the Two Kwangs to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton, announcing the recovery of the Assistant Compradore, it is stated that 3 chiefs of the pirates concerned in the attack on the "Chang Sha" have been decapitated; that 2 more pirates actually concerned in the attack have been arrested, and that several others who were concerned in other piratical attacks have been also arrested."
4..
A large quantity of fittings belonging presumably to the steam-launch "Chang Sha" have also been re- covered by the Chinese Authorities and restored to the owners.
5.
The Consul expresses the opinion in a covering letter forwarding translation of the Viceroy's
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CLAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
800.
&C..
despatch,
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