CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927 — Page 206

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Enclosure do. 11 in Swatow No. 92 of October 23, 1926.

The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs to Mr. Consul Kirke.

October 6, 1925.

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sir,

Robbery from Teo Yes Swee's House.

with reference to your allegation that the police treated

Teo Yee Swee brutally, the Chief of Police reports :

The robbery took place in the middle of the night.

The

police, seeing that Too Yeo Swee was nervous and flurried and

that his utterances were wild and excited, became suspicions

and accordingly took him to the police station. There they

examined him and ascertained the facts and then released him.

Ho received no ill-treatment.

However, as the officer in

charge of the No. 4 Police Station failed to carry out his

duties in a proper manner, he has been relieved of his post.

Ch'en Te-shih, Ch'en Fu-tzu, Huang Jung-shen, three of the

robbers in this case, have been arrested and shot.

The police could not prevent the robbery from happening,

all they could do was to exert every endeavour to arrest the

robbers. The officer in charge of No. 4 Station has been

relieved of his post, end Teo Yee Swee's annoyanos at being

taken to the Police Station is no longer justifiable.

I have the honour to request that you will inform Teo

Yee Swee accordingly.

I have etc.

Commissioner for Foreign Affairs.

N.