CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927 — Page 208

from his house and in refusing to deliver theÐ ́

o me on my

application, the poliou re acting illegally and ultra vireg

and I must apain demand the retur of those articles,

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ith regard to the statemente in your letter that r.

e0 Lee mee receive no ill-treatment at Sue hands of the

police, I beg to remind you again that on the night of the

robbery he was bound and led from wir house arou the streste

0. 4 wolice Etation ais feet were

like

criminal; &

Chained on se orders of we officer in marge and after being

put brough an examination he wan hain led by police surough

the streets to the central Police station, where ne was detained

in a corridor leavily to the ceĝls till 6. 2.M., unving y

tuen been in the hands of the police some 12 or 14 hours,

during wien time his terrified family has no kowledge of mat

nan happened to him. If guo. treatment artis, meted out to

a respectable householder, who had just undergone tae experi-

ence of having nie house ransacked before my eyes, is not

ill-treatment, I do not know the mesnin of the term. I

repeat, with all possible emphasis, quaŭ 301 mole conduct of

the police on wish occasion was disgracefil.

it. regard to the arvegt and execution of turee men

alleged to have been enga ed io the robbery, I have the honou

to point out test none of tas. persons was identified by I.

Deo ler swee, nor was I given any opportunity to be present at

their trial. I cannot sherefore accept the statement of the

police as proof that the vergone arrected were actually con-

cemed in the robbery.

I a reporting fully on tue "ase to is ́ ́ajesty's

Minister at Foxing in order tuet nie Majesty's Government may

be informed of the fror an illegal action of the police

in this matter.

I hav

tino our to be,

sir,

four on dient servant

/ (Sã.) Cécil Kirke.