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has kidnapped the girl or that the girl has come unwillingly to the Colony except that the circumstances are suspicious. The facts only come out afterwards. In cases of that kind the Police would not take a charge would they?
A.--No.
Q.-The woman is willing to go to the Pó Leung Kuk and if afterwards it is elicited that she has kidnapped the girl do you think the Pó Léung Kuk would be right to allow the woman to go?
A.--No.
Q.--You think they ought to charge her?
A. Yes.
Q.-The Police and the Registrar General have many communications together on the subject of women and girls?
A. Yes.
Q.--Within the last few years they have worked quite harmoniously?
A.--I believe so.
Q.--With regard to KWONG CHEUNG; when he left the Police Force what was his character ?*
A.-I suppose it would be fair,-I could not say.
Q.-You don't know the character of the man when he left the force?
A.-I do not know exactly.
Q-Up to the period when he got into trouble with regard to the banishment case what kind of a character had he borne in the Police Force?
A.-I could not say. I know he was a detective for some years.
Q. How many years?
A.-A long time.
Q.--Was he considered satisfactory for many years?
A. He was, for a long time.
Q.--And his connection with SIN MUN you only know by hearsay?
A. That is all.
Q. Are these things you have given us with a view to our making enquiries from the original parties? You don't know them of your own knowledge?
A.-Only by hearsay and the records of the Police Force.
Q.--Outside that you know nothing of your own knowledge? A.-No.
Q.-As the head of the detective force, if there were any other cases would you not have heard of them?
A.-I might hear of them, or I might not.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-You think that the Pó Léung Kuk Society Committee, consisting of the leading Chinese in the Colony, have rendered valuable assistance to the Police?
A. Yes, in suppressing kidnapping and rescuing women and children from the hands of those who deal in them.
Q-As a Society they have done so?
A. Yes.
* See Appendix 25.
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