Copy.
No.308.
Sir,
Enclosure No. 4.
4
Government House,
Hong Kong, 17th August, 1927.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your telegram and note of the 12th August, 1927, on
the subject of the robber chief Lau (Liu) Lun.
2.
This man was duly arrested by the Hong Kong
Police but the flaw in the Chinese Extradition Ordinance
about which we have been in correspondence seemed so
unlikely to escape the legal advisers of this well-to-do
fugitive that only banishment proceedings were instituted
against him and he was released on bail of $10,000 cash with the stipulation that he should report to Police Headquarters every alternate day pending the decision of
the Governor in Council.
3.
Lau Lun has failed during the last few days to
comply with this stipulation and has in all probability
left the Colony in which case steps will of course be
taken to estreat his bail, which I may say is a very heavy
one for a deportation case. I regret that he should thus
have eluded us, but I venture to think the solution of
the difficulty not altogether unsatisfactory. Even if deportation had been decided upon, the choice of destination would have rested, not with this Government,
His Britamic Majesty's Consul-General,
CANTO N.
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