CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 390

8t

385

coast such as that of the Pacific.

77.

iho elegate having imposed his phority in this

absolute manner with the support of the militar under the

absolute impossibility of landing, and the Department of

the Interior having d eiged without ang areal and sa sole

judge that the action of the elegate s to be approved;

having lost time the efforts in the negotiations to obtain

from the desired rosult, having lost all hope of etting the Su-

preab Goverment of the Repu lic a revertel of the decision

which had been e proeaeg both oficially and verbelly, it

was occiced to bring the sto mert "yario", "visang" and

"Landratschieff" buck Lo Tong Hong with the 520 pessengers

who had been refused wumittance, ritst leaving a protest

with the British Consul in Terworva, against the unlawful

40GB 1 DUTE GROTE Let forth, and reservist the righle ne

have under noth international and tundei ̧ ui Lav.

2.

The losses through such delay of the ships, the

expanves inevitably incurcod, sad tre artvel losses by the

closing of the business sirvaty organized and in which cap-

ital had been invostea, as well an the loss of profits to

be derived by the business, Cabkad ka kolted Geiicit which

ie set forth in generel terms in the Menor naum which I

have the honour to enclose and which is an Juact copy of

that presented to the Pranident of the epu lic on the akna

of October 1902.

The amounto chown in that document are proved by

the invoices, receipts, etc.. w/1a as regards the cl scifi-

estion of these for rich there are no vouchers, such as

the loss of life and of reasonable profits, they are based

on numerical data in the first case, und on Conservative

est mates in the recond.

#ent

The farts which are net o orth in the above state-

mont,

Page 390Page 391

682