CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927 — Page 176

Enclosure No. 7 in Swatow No. 92 of October 23, 1926

sir,

RI ISH CONSULATE,

SWATON,

AUGUST 28, 1926.

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I have the honour to acknowleëre the receipt of your

letter of the "rd instant on the mbjent of the robbery from

the house of “r. Teo Yee (w2.

The police report embodied in your letter is, as you

ver, correctly sheerve, entirely at variance with the account

of the affir given in my letter of the 10th instant, the

reason being that most of the statements in the report are

misleading, mile all reference to the most important points is

omitted. the report is, in hot, entirel worthless, being a

mera &û empt

to conceal h gross

inertisie oy and outrageour Debaviour of the police on that

vocasion.

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and a Vul; pour our

No effort is made to explain wy r. Teo Yeo Ewee "AR

bound and arabled off to the police station and his feet chain-

ed men he arrived there; or why he was tra sfered from the

No. 4olice £tation to the Central Station and detained $ill

about three o'cloct in the afternoon. o mention is made of

bir bei § compelled to sign a deposition without knowing what

het been written dorm. Indeed, it would be impossible to guerɛ

from reading the roport, Shat Fr. Teo himcel" had been arrested

at all. All reference to these insolent ante is carefully

omitted from the polio report, nor is sy valid exause offered

for priving Mr. Teo fee twee, aritian subject, of the arms

and a unition found in his house, nor for stealing hie keys;

and I am œurprised that an official of your

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ank and position

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The Comissioner for koreign Affairs,

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should