CONFIDENNIAL.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 21st. September, 1915.
110
Sir,
100 -3525415.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your Secret Despatch of the 26th. of July transmitting copy of a
Despatch addressed to the "ar office under date of the 24th. of liny
by Major-General Kelly on the subject of a statement, forwarded by
the Criminal Investigation Department of the Punjab, made by an
informer named Nawab Khan, a passenger from the United States to
India via Hongkong by the S. S. "Tosa Laru" in October last.
In reply I have to report that Major-General
2.
Kelly did not show me a copy of his Despatch referred to nor did he
inform me of his intention to criticise the Hongkong Police or the
management of the Gurdwara.
3.
Under date of the 14th. of May Major-General
Kelly sent me a copy of the report from India in a letter, copy of
which is enclosed together with copy of my reply thereto. Mr. T. H.
King, Assistant Superintendent of Police, was unfortunately absent
on short leave at the time Major-General Kelly's letter was received
He informs me that neither he nor Jemadar (then Sergeant-lajor)
Jaggat Singh has any recollection of any document in the possession
of Indar Singh which could not be read or understood. He adds that
paragraph 1 of the report is misleading in that it implies that
Indar Singh alone had papers and books with him. Every passenger, he
says, had some books, letters or papers and they were all inspected.
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H" RIGHT HONOURABLE
&c.,
ANDREY BONAR LAW, .P.,
&C..
&c...
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