CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902 — Page 355

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Sir:-

C. O.

25914

351

8, BILLITER SQUARE,

RECR

Red 26 JUN 02

LONDON, E.C.

4th. June, 1902.

We refer to our letter of the 16th. April and

to the subsequent interview which you were good

enough to grant to our Senior with regard to the

arrest of the Steamship "Kaifong" by the Philippine

Authorities at Cebu, and have now the honour to re-

port that we have just received mail advices from our

friends, by which it would appear that the

ties, having satisfied themselves that the owners

were in no way to blame, had consented to reduce the

fine to G.$.500 on our representatives undertaking,

under bond for G.$.70,000, to deport the Stowaways

and to land them in the port of Hong Kong.

Authori-

Arrangements had been made with the Hong Kong

Authorities to arrest all the stowaways, one hundred

and thirty-four in number, and any of the Crew that

The Honourable

Francis H. Villiers, C. B.,

Foreign Office.

were

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