Conclosure 1.
RECEIVED
9 DEC 1912
Report of a Committee appointed, under Sectilan OFICE
Regulations for His Majesty's Colonial Service,
to enquire into the conduct of Mr. F. J.
Badeley (Captain Superintendent of
To His Excellency
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Police since 1902.)
The Governor.
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Your Committee was appointed on the 13th. September, 1912. Your Committee consisted of:-
Mr. J. A. S. Bucknill, Attorney-General, (Chairman). lr. C. Severn, Colonial Secretary.
Mr. A. H. Thomson, Treasurer.
The matters into which your Committee was instructed to
enquire are contained in a statement in writing furnished under' date the 4th. September, 1912, by Your Excellency to the Captain Superintendent of Police signifying the rounds upon which Your Excellency intended to bring the question of his suspension before
the Executive Council.
A copy of this statement is attached marked 'A'.
A copy of the statement in writing furnished by the
Captain Superintendent of Police setting forth the grounds upon
which he relied to exculpate himself from the charges brought
against him is also attached marked 'B'.
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The affair out of which the enquiry by your Committee arises may be shortly related as follows:-
The Island of Cheung Chao (know familiarly as Dumb-bell
Island) is a small Island situated about eleven miles South West of
liongkong.
It is British Territory having been taken over in 1899. It has a population of about 3,000 Chinese chiefly of the seafaring class and a small settlement of white people (mostly missionaries who have summer resorts built on the Island) varying
in number from about 30 to 100.
The
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