CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12] — Page 410

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Sir,

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REC

REL 11 YR 19

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 19th. December, 1918.

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I have the honour to report that on the 15th. October a 5th. Grade Pay Clerk, employed in the Head Office of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section), by name Leung Kam Tong, absconded with a large sum of Government money, consisting mostly of receipts from the Railway taken during the three preceding days, Saturday 12th. to Monday 14th., the latter date being a General Holiday.

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The circumstances are set out in the accompanying copy of a report by Mr. Baker, Acting Manager of the Railway, to which I have only to add by way of explana- -tion that, since the offices of the Kowloon-Canton Railway

are situated on the Kowloon side of the harbour, it is necessary that the receipts should be transported by ferry to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

3.

It has since been ascertained that the

and amount embezzled was 84,334.15, not 83,915 as stated in the Acting Manager's report, the discrepancy being due to the fact that an additional sum of 8311.15 in silver was sub- sequently found to be missing, and on the opening of his safe, it was further ascertained that the clerk had previously collected $108 on Bills without accounting for the some,

4.

It would appear that the clerk had

deliberately

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WALTER LONG, M.P.,

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