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vromašðiðng sidmat van!

„spaflky tier bemém Jvský enačblos Latsogt ute

Koratalb a ot

trươy nà daužim mod yboogia oved usermäéläng

syob aft bra 1200?

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hliroqsang bem onong slitě to žmonoķes vlast „bletka den era vlezláno al Shrawaž Šrammeveč do ozno Comradng add

mr azetovadă atenskáldag saOT

yang bơm odkvir að

Stawy betænderit arm

Yo modet adê zat pelyneć

við gď klar! adď

to znovaŤ arið rớt downámo glasomos sramoláldog sze?

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Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

Bir,

Re KaTin Gates; the following is all I know or

have heard regarding them;-

In April, 1899, I was one of two European Police

Officers, detailed with a party of Indian Police, for duty

with the Hongkong Regiment, and other military details,

engaged in quelling armed resistance to British occupation of the New Territories. After the initial action fought

at Taipo, in which the Police took a part we, the Police,

were detailed off in parties to act as baggage and transport

guards to the troops. In this capacity I was present at the

action fought in the Pat Heung Valley where, after the

defeat of the Chinese levies, the majority of the latter

sought refuge within the walled portions of Kam Tin. When

our troops surrounded Kam Tin they found the iron gateways to the walled portions shut and barred against them and, as

they people within ignored the order to open these gates

a party of Sappers blew down the walls flanking the gates

with gun-cotton. This was on the 18th of April. I saw the

iron gates almost immediately after they were torn down.

Again, about a week later, I saw the same gates at Taipo,

They had been carried to Flagstall Fill there by the Kam

Tin villagers themselves, as an act of submission. In the

month of May, 1899, the Public Works Department removed the

gates from Taipo to Hongkong. I was told, at the time, that they were being removed by express order of His Excellency the Governor, 1 saw the gates removed from Taipo and that

is the last I ever saw of them. More than a year later I

was told that Sir Henry Blake had sent the gates to his Irish residence, Myrtle Grove, Yonghal, I was then stationed at Ping Shan and remember quite well the unfavourable coments made in reference to His Excellency's action by

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