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Memorandum No. 36/448
Ministry of Foreign Affairs office of the Commissioner for Kwangtung and Kwangsi.
Hong Kong 4th March, 1947.
To:
The Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretariat, Lower Albert Road, HONG KONG.
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Re:
Detention of Chinese Soldiers in
the New Territories.
With reference to our memoranda Nos. 36/332 and 36/405
of the 12th and the 24th February, 1947, respectively on the
above subject, I am directed to inform you that this office is
now in receipt of a further communication (Tai-tien No. 52801 of
the 22nd of February, 1947) from the Governor of Kwangtung,
transmitting that according to findings submitted to the
Governor, the smuggling junk which had attacked the patrol party
on the date concerned has been verified to be a three-mast junk
carrying Macao Licence No. 9326A and owned by its master by the
name of Wong Pui (
}. In light of the present
findings, the Government of Kwangtung has demanded in his
communication that the Government of Hong Kong be good enough to
effect not only the release of the Chinese soldiers concenned
together with their arms and equipment but also the handing over
of Wong Pui and his accomplices and his junk to the Chinese
authorities for trial to be conducted in Canton.
In addition to the above communication, this office is
also in receipt of official letter No. 6610 of the 24th of
February, 1947, from the Headquarters of the Kwangtung Peace
preservation Corps, confirming that the armed smuggling junk
concerned in the present case had actually engaged in smuggling
activities in Chinese waters through unlawful possession of arms
on board.
In view of the above finding, I am therefore to
request that the Government of Hong Kong be good enough to
attend to the present case as requested by the Governor of
Kwangtung through expediting the release of the two Chinese
soldiers/
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