CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927 — Page 67

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Enclosure No. 3 in Swatow No. 27 of June 29th,1927.

Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Swatow.

to

H.M. Consul.

1

Swatow, June 11th, 1927.

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Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your

letter of today's date informing me that Low Peng Kiah had

been arrested by the Opium Suppression Bureau and had been

released; but that the Bureau had extorted from him a draft

for $1,000 on the Chi Ch'eng Cash Shop. You request me to

cancel the draft and to order the Cash Shop not to cash it.

In reply, I have the honour to inform you that I have

written to the Opium Suppression Bureau requesting them to send the draft to this office for transmission (to you) for

cancellation. But in regard to the question of stopping payment, only the drawer has the power to do this.

I take this opportunity to inform you that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued instructions to the Chao An

Magistrate to ascertain and report whether Low Peng Kiah is actually a British subject or not and that investigations

are now being made. Until the report is sent forward and

the instructions on it have been received, I am unable definitely to recognize him as British and I must formally

request you to take note of this.