nclosure No. /2
12 in SwatoW
No. 92 of October 2
1926.
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sir,
BRITISH CON: ULATE,
SWATOW,
OCTOBER 23, 1926.
I have the honour to acknowledge tue receipt of your
letters of the 23rd ultimo and the 6th instant relative to
the robbery on August 8 last at the house of Mr. To Yee Swee
The Regulations governing the import of arms and
ammunition into China are well-known to me, and I do not,
of course, question their validity; but those regulations
provide no authority or exo-se for the action of the Gratow
police in removing certal arms and ammunition from dr.
Yee Wee's house.
The position is as follows: men visiting r. 16o
Tee Sweebs house, the police discovered there certain arms
and awunition belonging to him. weither te police nor any
local authority possess any knowledge as to how he came by
tuen, and unless it can be proved that he acquired them in
an illegal manner, it must be presumed that he duly bserved
the regulations. the police have no rigat whatever to
remove any articles from the house of a fritis. subject on
the allegeú grounds that suo artioles nave been suppleā
into China at some previous date, uni as the authority of
this Consulate has been first obtained. If it is suspected
that no acted contrary to the regulations, it is for te
proper autuorities to prosenute li in tue Court to which he
is amenable, amely in tui: ongular ourt, viere the matter
will be investigated and decid & according to law.
Io removing articles belonging to vr. Teo Yee Swee
The Commissioner for Foreig, Affairs,
TO Y
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