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investigation in Court.

↑ reply

"No, Sir, I have not yet received any offi-

cial report on this outrage, which will no doubt

be investigated in the Criminal Court of the

Colony. I have telegraphed to the Gov. my most

cordial congratulations on his escape

AVC

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I prefer Mr Shutts", reply.

Art. 5-

Yu. 14.67

& 5·7

Mr. Stewart,-To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if he has any official information to show whether the attempted assassination of Sir Francis Henry May was made by a British subject, or whether it was an act of individual fanaticism or was the criminal a representative of any Chinese political society. [8th July 1912.]

Mr. Secretary Harcourt.-I have received no official information except that the

motive for the attempt has not yet been ascertained. [8th July 1912.7

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ELETRAS. The overnor of Long kong to the ecretary of whale

for the .oloni÷8.

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i assured ɩne loverment on the 4th July. The not ive

for the attempt which „euter reported has not yet

been ascertained. Lespatch follows.

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that the motion for the attempt has not yet

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