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No. 333
Copies to:- P. O. No. 98
Peking No. 144
Swatow
H.B.H.Consulate General,
Canton.
August 23rd, 1927.
sir.
August 20th.
ith reference to Your Excellency'a
denpatch No. 308 of the 17th instant, I have the
honour to enclose a copy of a letter from the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs regarding the re-
10:30 on bail and escape of the robber chief Lau Lun (whose extradition to Ganton
was being aought,
2. The Ministry's letter is courteously
worded, but it conveys what must be in the mind
of ovary Chinese who hears of the ca10. It is
not usual to release on bail a prisoner charged
with murder. This man, a notorious criminal
was wanted not for one murder but, for dozens,
and no Chinese official will believe that a
magistrate could release such a man on bail in
the bona fide belief that he would turn up for
trial and excution when called upon. They will
inevitably think that the magistrate was bribed.
3. To all the reproaches that have been
made to the Canton authorities that they are
ramiss and incompetent in dealing with pirates
His Excellency,
The Governor,
HONGKONG.
in bian Bay
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