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Enclosure
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36290
Rece
Rec 26 NOV 10
Registrar-General'a Office,
Hongkong, 4th. July, 1910.
331
sir,
At a meeting of the District Watchmen
Committee hold this afternoon the state of the Colony was again
under discussion. Mr. Chan Chun-chiin representative of the
Yuon Fat Hong, Mr. Mg Hon-tsz of the same firm and member of
the Sanitary Board and Mr. Tseung Sz-kai, member of the District Watchmen Committee for 19 years started it by complain-
-ing of the thefts committed on Praya West of goods being
landed into godowns: much was said which it is needless to
repoat but Mr. Chan concluded by saying that in the fifty years
he had been in the Colony he had never know such a state of
affairs, and Mr. Wei Yuk said that he had to go back to the
time when a public routing was called to complain of the pro-
-valence of crime in Sir John Pope Hennessy's time to recall
a period when there was such a general feeling of insecurity.
Each member had something to add, the feeling was universal
that exceptional measures were called for, but all were united
in saying that what was dosential was greater activity on
the part of the detective department of the police. Exasperation
is a strong one to us0, *ks but hardly too strong to express
the feeling of the Committee, and I think it would be a good
thing if His Excellency could find time to see the Committee and
hear what the members have to say. Personally it appears to me
if I may say so without reflecting adversely on the Police
that what is required is to convince the police that the present
state of affairs is really dangerous, that the Colony is full
of bad characters, and that the Triad Societies are a menace
to peace and good order. If once the police are convinced, confident that they will have no difficulty in discovering
I am
and ridding the Colony of the originals whose presence the Committee complain of. I do not really think that the active
co-operation
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