CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 507

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their disposal, but refrained from doing so. therefore, precluded from commenting two months later on the testimony furnished by eye-witnesses, or from traversing statements made by them. The Jury, who heard the evidence and were hence in a position to form a correct judgment as to the value of statements made for or against, unanimously gave as their verdict vide paragraph 3 of the finding - "not only do we exonerate Mr. King from all blame in the matter, but we consider commendation is due to him and to the police and military immediately concerned for their conduct and patience under most trying circumstances, and for their personal courage.

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5. Your Excellency, being a British-born subject

and, if I am correctly informed, having at one time occupied a seat on the magisterial bench in Hongkong, must know that

under no other judicial system in the world are life and

liberty so secure, as under the protection of British law, and that nowhere have there been devised more stringent safeguards against the unwarranteble taking of human life

on the part of police or military authorities than through- out the British Empire. Whereas in other countries, and notably, as Your Excellency from personal experience can

confirm, in the United States of America that Great

Republic, which China has chosen as her prototype

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when a

mob gets out of hand and defies the law, fire is immediately

opened, not I on to the ground, as happened at Shatien, but

into the crowd.

6.

The Deputy Superintendent of Police and

those under him were merely subordinates, carrying out the

orders issued to them by their superior officers. Had they

failed to execute these, they would have rendered themselves

liable to reprimand and punishment. The responsibility,

therefore, did not lie with them, but with the Government

of Hongkong, who instructed them not to allow any Chinese

not provided with regulation passes to leave the Colony.

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