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Q.-You don't know then whether they were detained by order? *
A.—I don't think they were, because they were detained in both cases, I believe, on Saturdays.
Q.--You don't know that they were detained by order?
A. I don't know.
Q.--You know the Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance?
A. Yes.
Q.-You know the Registrar General has power to detain?
A.-I don't know how far it goes. I know that he has power to detain girls suspected of being kidnapped, but I don't know about the kidnappers.
Q.-The Registrar General has power to detain people under that Ordinance ?
A.--Yes, people suspected of being kidnapped.
Q.--You talk about the detectives. We have before us here a list of seven detect- ives of the Pó Léung Kuk employed from 1881 to 1888. Of these detectives how many have you known?
A.-I know MA MUN and CHUNG Ü. I am not sure about the others. I have known others but I cannot recollect the names.
Q.--You have told us that the rumours of squeezing are equally strong in the case of Pó Léung Kuk detectives and Chinese detectives?
A.-I said not equally strong.
Q.-If you look through this list you will find that, out of these, four have been dismissed from the service of the Society?
A. Yes.
Q-Does that indicate to you that the Pó Léung Kuk have been keeping a sharp look out on their detectives ?
A.-Not exactly; it might or it might not. It depends upon the length of time these men have been carrying it on.
Q.-Could you show the same average of dismissals in the Police Force? A-I should not like to. Certainly not,-not for squeezing.
Q.-You have talked about a photographer. Do you know whether he went away?
A. I knew he ran away in connection with a kidnapping case.
Q-Who brought that case ?
A. The Registrar General.
Q.-This man went away therefore owing to the sharp look out the Pó Léung Kuk have kept?
A. If they had known it before they would have had him in custody.
Q. How is it that the Police knew nothing about this photographer? How is it they never kept a watch on this man if he has been in the trade so long?
A.-It only came to my ears about two or three days after I heard that he went away from the Colony in connection with a case of sending a woman away to California.
Q.-After the Pó Léung Kuk had found him out?
A.-Yes.
* See Appendices 37 and 38.
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