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4.
The Comissioner for Foreign Affairs informs me that
three of the robbers have been arrested and shot, but I
have only the word of the police for this and no evidence
has been produced that such arreata and executions have
been carried out, or that the men were actually concerned
in the robbery in question.
5. with recard to the arms removed from Teo's house by
the police, the Comissioner refuses to give them up on
the ground that they were not imported under hu anao, as
required by the "Rules and Regulations for the Importation
of Arme and Ammunition".
6.
With regard to these arms, Teo explains that one of
the shot guns holonged to the founders of the fire before
he became manager. The other was bought by him locally
last year.
The 300 - 400 cartridges were also bought by
him locally a few years ago. the two old revolvers
originally belonged to he founders of his fim.
sporting knife was bought by him 20 years ago at singapore.
'The Browning pistol and armunit on were purchased by him
in 1919 or 1920 from a ship's captain in Swatow.
7.
The
ith the possible e xception of the Browing istol
and armunition, therefore, Teo Yee Swee a pears to have
acquired the above articles without infringing the Import
of Arms Regulations, In any case, I sumit that it is not
for the police to take upon themselves to confi cate those
articles. In my correspondence with the Commission r for
Foreign Affaire I have held that the poliec scould return »
the articles intact to me and that if they suspect that
they have been acquired by teo in an illegal manner, they
should
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