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from nia house and in refusing to deliver them o me on my
aplication, tus police are acting illegally and ultra vires
and I must in demand the retur of those articles.
it regard to the statemente in your letter bant ́r.
Teo Yee wee receive no ill-treatment as the hands of the
police, I beg to remind you again that on the night of the
robbery he was bound and led from Jie qouse burouge the streets
like a criminal; a the 10. 4 Police tation nis feet rere
ausined on the orders of tus officer in charge and after being
put throug
an examination ne was aja in led by police through
the street to the Central Police Station, where he was detained
in a corridor leading to the cells till 2.0 p.m., Laving by
taen been in the hands of the police some 12 or 14 hours,
during whio time his terrified family had no knowledge of nat
had happened to him. If gunu ti antment as t is, meted out to
a resectable householder, who had just undergone the experi-
ence of having når house ransacked before hic eyes, is not
1l1-treatment, I do not know the meaning of the term. I
repeat, with all possible emagis, at the mole conduct of
the police on sunt occasion was disgraceful.
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hita regard to tue arrest and execution of tree men
alleged to have been enea, ed in the robbery, I wave the honour
to point out that none of t s: persons was identified by @r.
Teo Iee Jwee, nor was I given any opportunity to be present at
their trial. I cannot therefore accept the statement of the
police ma proof that the perenne acted were Actually non-
cerned in the robbery.
I a portin Ally on the arm to is ajesty's
Minister at Peking in order that Kis Majesty's Goverment may
be informed of the proper an illegal action of the police
in this matter.
I have the honour to be.
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Sd.) Cecil Kirke.
Jonsul.
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