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REG 4 FEB 16
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 24th. December, 1915.
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With reference to my Confidential Despatch of the 6th. September, 1914, I have the honour to report the follow- -ing 3 serious crimes committed in the New Territories by robbers who in each case used the island of Wong Kam, the jurisdiction of which is in dispute between the Chinese and Portuguese Governments, as a base of operations.
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On the 8th. of August last a store used for the storage of and retail of salt to fishing vessels at a place called Nim Wan near Deep Bay, New Territories, was raided by a party of Chinese salt armugglers. Over $600 in cash and considerable property was carried off together with the son aged 17 years of the proprietor of the store. The boy's father refused to act on the advice of the Police in the matter and eventually redeemed his son
for the sum of $2,320 which was paid in Macao. The boy narrated on
his return home how he had at first been taken to the island of
Kio, off which island the ill-fated "Tai On" was destroyed by
pirates, confined in a cave chained by the neck to a rock, and then
transferred to the island of Wong Kam near Macao. His father got
into touch with the robber chiefs through a Chinese Military
Officer stationed in Chinese Territory close to Macao.
On the 28th. of August last a different ging
3.
of robbers mailing from the mainland to the West of Deep Bay
raided the house of the licensee of a stone quarry at Chiu Liu Kok
near Lantao Island, carried off 870 in cash, a quantity of property
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ANDREW BOAR LAW, M.P.,
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