CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10] — Page 230

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No. 1 in 4022/1912.

Your Excellency,

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Government House,

Ref 8 Stangkong, 27th. June,

1913.

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I have the honour to bring to Your Excellency's notice the enclosed memorandum which has been dram up at my request by the Captain Superintendent of Police concerning the presence in Macao of certain ringleaders of robber bands who use Macao as a base from which to organise piracies and robberies. The four persons mentioned in the Memorandum are not only known as most dangerous characters to the Hongkong Police but to Chinese in the Districts in the Kwangtung Province which have been made the scene of their operations. They are no doubt know also to the Police of

Macao.

The presence of these men in Macao is, I venture to submit, a common danger to the peace of Hongkong, of the Kwangtung Province and of the Colony under Your Excellency's jurisdiction and I would respectfully urge that common cause should be made in hunting down these miscreants. I have therefore the honour to suggest that they be denied the hospitality of Macao.

I have further to bring to your notice that

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I am informed on very good authority that the island of Wong Kan is still being used as a rendezvous and headquarters of at least

one band of robbers.

I have etc.,

(Sd.) F. H. May,

Governor,&c..

His Excellency

The Governor,

Macao.