TRANSLATION.
No.337/27.
From Ministry for Foreign Affairs (No.440)
Canton.
20th August, 1927.
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Sir,
I have the honour to refer to my letter of
the 27th July in which I requested that Lou Lun the famous brigand of Tung Kun who had been arrested by the Hong Kong Government, be handed over to a representative of the
Canton Police to be brought back to this city and also to your reply. Subsequently I received a report that this brigand had been released on $10,000 bail and on the 11th August I requested you to telegraph to the Hong Kong Government not to allow bail and I received your reply stating that you had done so. I now see that the Hong Kong papers state that Lou Lun on signing a bond for $10,000 was released. Subsequently, however, he did not turn up within the appointed time limit but hid himself no trace of him being found. The Hong Kong police then confiscated the $10,000 guarantee and issued circular instructions for
his capture.
I, in fact, have no desire to discuss the
conduct or motives of the Government of Hong Kong in regard to this case nor to criticize, but at a time when the Canton Government is intent on exterminating brigands it is to be feared that the people will misunderstand Hong Kong's true reasons for releasing a brigand on bail, leading to bad feeling damaging to the future of Anglo- Chinese friendly relations. I have therefore the honour to request that in order to allay suspicion of the people.
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