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sir,
Government House,
May, 1901.
Hongkong,
31et
On the 12th. March, 1900, I read in the
*Hongkong Telegraph' the following account of Chinese sailors
tortured.-
*Five men who formed part of a force or-
dered to proceed to quell a disturbance were accidentally
left behind in Canton. They went to a house of ill-fme and
next morning were arrested as pirates. Not confessing they
were tortured until a confession was wrung from then when
four were executed. The fifth saving his life by giving
evidence against his comrades thus supplying *corroboration".
The Military Mandarin,Li who arrested these men had been de-
graded and threatened with severe punishment if he did not
capture a certain party of pirates. It was believed that he
represented these sailors thus arrested as the pirate party
with whose capture he was charged”.
On 15th. March, the Colonial Secretary
wrote to the Consul-General requesting him to ascertain the
facts, as if true the practice bore upon the proposal that
prisoners made by British Authorities in the suppression of
piracy on the West River should be handed over to be dealt
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with by the CIInese Authorities.
RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
On 19th. Marck, an answer came from the
Consul
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