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Sir,
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6. Desa Bad Central, Hongkong, 30th. January, 1914.
Sung Ying, Inc.
We have received instructions from Tientsin with regard to a man named Sung Ying In who has recently been arrested by the Chinese Authorities there on a charge of bomb making.
The man is a British subject, and for some time past was a clerk in the British Post Office at Tientsin, until the Post Office was reorganised under the London Postal Authority, and thereafter he was a clerk in the Kailan lining Administration, who are now exercising their influence on his behalf.
In December last we obtained a Certificate of Birth showing that the man was born in Hongkong, which was duly for- -warded to the British Consul at Tientsin, who has now declined to move in the matter on the rund that Sung had not registered himself as a British subject in Tientsin.
We are now urged to take every possible stop to bring such influence to bear as way insure that the man has a fair and impartial trial.
We are not aware whether it is within the province of the Government of longkong to interfere in such a case, but we shall be obliged if the matter may be brought under consideration as early as possible, and the decision of the Government con- -veyed to us.
We enclose copy Certificate of Birth and shall be pleng- -ed if the same way be returned in due course.
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong,
Te have etc.,
(Sd.) Hastings and Hastings.
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