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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,
TIENTSIN MURDER
"CONFESSIONS"
2 CHINESE OFFER TO T
SURRENDER
LETTER SENT TO
BRITISH ENVOY
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
HONG KONG, Wednesday.
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A number of newspapers and agen- a cies this evening received an open n letter, signed by two Chinese, Chuw Chung-leung and Yuen How-chun, g who claim that they are the actual assassins of Cheng Hsi-kang, the ta Customs Commissioner, in Tientsin, si whose murder in April marked the beginning of the Anglo-Japanese la dispute there.
The British Government recently decided to hand over the four Chinese who are suspected by the Japanese of the murder.
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Chu and Yuen, who state that they are in Hong Kong, address their letter to the Governor, Sir Geoffrey Northcote, and to the British Ambassador in China, Siru Archibald Clark Kerr.
They are willing to give themselves up, they say, provided that a promise is given that they will not be handed over to the Japanese.
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Mr. Cheng was shot in a cinema shortly after a slide had been flashed on the screen asking him to leave the build-le ing. Chu and Yuen state that the proof m that they are the actual assassins is e shown by a letter written in the same handwriting as was used in this slide.
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The consensus of opinion here is that the object of Chu and Yuen is to delay the Tokyo talks and the handing over of the four suspects to the Japanese.
Others consider the possibility that the letter is inspired by the Japanese and is designed to provide reasons for Japanese claims against Hong Kong, similar to those on Tientsin.
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The censors have refused to allow the letter, which is in the hands of the De
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d possibility of publishing it as an adver- ar tisement. The letter was not sent to the Fi British papers.
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