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hastily to order the police to open fire? Further a close study of all the evidence given at the enquiry clearly shows that there was absolutely no violent resistance on the part of the Chinese: the position of the police was equally 'in no way endangered and there was therefore no necessity for them to open fire in self-defence.

Moreover, the road at Shatien is very narrow,

and besides this road there are several others similar to art and if it was essential to stop the Chinese passing beyond why should it only have been at the one place, Shatien? This proves still more clearly that the Hongkong Police were wrong in killing and wounding Chinese workmen at Shatien on the occasion in question. It seems to me that for justice to be done and public feeling to be conciliated, Hongkong officals ought, in accordance with law, to punish the Assistant Superintendent of Police in question and the policemen who misused their powers wrongfully to open fire and kill people. The letter under acknowledgment however

states that, it having been justifiable homicide, there is

no necessity for discussing the question of punishment: that is, the real facts of the case are put on one side,

once there has been an infringement of the Hongkong martial

law regulations.

I entirely however fail to agree with the statements contained in the 6th paragraph of the Hongkong

Government's letter and I have accordingly the honour to

send you this reply to reiterate the protest and would ask

you to be good enough to telegraph to His Excellency the

Governor of Hongkong requesting him to refer to the conte-

nts of the letter from this office of March 8, and, in

order that the law may be vindicated, to have the police who

shot the Chinese on the day in question severely punished,

and I have further the honour to request the favour of a

reply.

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