Enclosure No. 1.
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Copy.
Captain Superintendent of Police,
gir,
FRONTIE INCIDENTS
1. The Chinese Soldiers and Strikers around the
Hirs Bay coast line, have discovered a fresh source of
revenue, They are now collecting licence fees from and painting numbers on boats plying in British waters. particularly the maller craft the owners of which live
in Chinese Territory.
Receipts are issued for licence fees thum
attack collected, one of which receipts I atch, together with
translation of same.
This procedure is having an adverse effect on
our Harbour Revenue collected by the Police Launch, as the
boat people naturally object to paying double.
2. A Railway Guard employed on the British Section, Kowloon Canton Railway, named Tan Choi Kwai, who went to visit his family living in Le U Village, Chinese Territory, was arrested on the 9th September, 1925, by strikers and taken to Sham Chun where he is at present detained.
I am informed that he had associated himself with
the 9th Labour Corps of Strikers (formerly on piquet duty at Lo U), in smuggling persons over the berder into British Territory, in which association he made considerable sums of money. A petition against him was sent to the Chan Tim Fu, the head of the 9th Labour Corpe who, for obvious reasons, took no notice. Recently, the 11th Labour Corps relieved the 9th, and the former arrested Van Choi Kwai,
it is said, because of his improper association with their predecessors who probably refused to share the spoil.
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