CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10] — Page 258

GOPY.

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REG 29 CEP 03

Government House,

Hongkong, 21st. August, 1903.

Sir,

When Your Excellency was recently here 1

had occasion to bring to your notice a case in which the territo-

rial rights of this Colony were violated in March last by the

commission of a grave crime within the City of Victoria in the

murder of a Chinese, whose person was either mistaken for that

of one Hung Tsun-fuk the ringleader of an abortive rising

against the Chinese Authorities at Canton in the beginning of

the year which formed the subject of the Despatch noted in the

margin or was desired in order that it might be palmed off

upon the Chinese Authorities as that of the ringleader in

question, and in the removal of the dead body evidently with the

connivance of the Chinese Admiral Commanding at the Bogue Forts

to Chinese Territory and subsequently to Canton.

2.

I have now the honour to transmit for

your consideration copy of a memorandum giving an epitome of the

information and evidence in the possession of this Government in

M's. Consul General ton to H.Bris, Charge

Mochy for the Peking of the

Enclosure!. About. of 18th June thatal Conclosure 2. Enclosures.

Why enclosed in 2

Enclosures 4+

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connection with this case; copy of Consul-General Scott's inter-

view with Yang Taotai the Viceroy's Chief Secretary dated the

20th. April last; copy obtained by this Government through a

trustworthy source of Admiral Ho's Despatch to the Viceroy when forwarding the body; and copies of Cheung Cho-ting's deposi- tion taken at the instance of Admiral Bo and of a bond in which

certain officers under Admiral Ho's command bind themselves as sureties for the truth of Cheung's statements. A copy of the

His Britannic Majesty's Minister,

PEKING.

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