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Enclose N° 3 Governors Compdential Dexpontiti
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Commander-in-black &
th November 1983
No. 138.
bluna Stall 7 UEC 03,
24th, March 1903.
sir,
It being unlikely, as
Your Excellency will learn from
the correspondence enclosed, that the authorities immediately
concerned will take effective steps to prevent an occurrence
like that hereafter described, I am reluctantly compelled to
lay before Your Excelleney a case of serious misconduct on the part of one of the Hongkong police constables (No. 45).
2. About 2 p.m. on the 22nd.instant, I landed in plain clothes at Murray Pier. My jinricksha with my own hired servants in
well marked dress was awaiting me there. I could see them quietly standing to the left of the pier as my boat was approaching. The policeman (No 45) was standing near the middle point of the junction between the quay and the pier. There was no crowd, not even a boat alongside either of the piet steps, and only one jünricksha near mine. Captain White of H. M. S. Ocean whom I was about to join was standing not far from the policeman and saw the whole affair. I would add that the jinricksha was not placed so as to cause any
obstruction and that the spot was quiet even for Sunday.
3. Having landed at the left hand pier stairs I Zoved along that side of the pier and when I had got to within some half dozen steps of the ricksha the man between the shafts lifted them from the ground and moved the rieksha about two or three feet forward to allow me to step into it. Policeman No 45 instantly strode quickly across my front and struck the man in the shafts on the left side of his face, with his open hand it is true, but with such violence as to knock his head to one side. 4. I instantly said to him "What on earth do you mean by striking that Chinaman ?" He replied with marked insolence of
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