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No. 157.

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V.

(From His Majesty's Acting Consul General, Canton, to the Acting Colonial Secretary.

HIS MAJESTY'S CONSULATE GENERAL,

CANTON, 27th May, 1904.

SIR,--With reference to your letter of May 10th the contents of which I communicated to the Viceroy as requested, I have the honour to enclose, for the information of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of Hong- kong, a copy and translation of a Despatch received yesterday. The Imperial Decree therein enclosed appears to me to be satisfactory, and I propose to inform the Viceroy that as soon as I receive His Excellency's assurance that the punish- ments stated have been carried out the HUNG TSUN-FUK case will be considered closed.

I have, &c.,

C. W. CAMPBELL,

Acting Consul General.

(Enclosure to No. 157 of the 27th May, 1904. Translation of a Despatch from Viceroy Ts'en to Mr. Campbell.)

SIR,- With reference to the case of HUNG TSUN-FUK, I have the honour to inform you that I memorialised the Throne, praying that all the officials who had been implicated in the affair should be dealt with, each according to his deserts. On the 17th of May last I received an Imperial Edict, copy of which I herewith transmit for your information.

I have, &c.,

Copy of Imperial Edict.

(Viceroy's Seal.)

With reference to the Memorial of Viceroy Ts'EN, praying for the punishment of the spy who compassed the death of the man he had deceived, thereby violating the territory of Hongkong and received a reward under false pretences; and that of the officials who connived at his offence; we hereby decree that Ho WEI-TSUNG, Senior Lieutenant in charge of the 4th Battalion of the 1st Division of the Pro- vincial Admiral's troops; LIN SHAN, Senior Lieutenant in charge of the 4th Battalion of the 4th Division under the command of the Colonel stationed at Ch'ih-hsi; FANG HSING-KUO, SU TING-CHEN and LIU CHIN-YUEH, Senior Sub- Lieutenants, and the deceased Sergeant CHU CH'ANG are to be cashiered. Ho CH'ANG-CH'ING, Admiral for the Province of Kuang-tung, who was guilty of neglect of duty, is to be removed from his post as a warning to others. For the rest, the matter is to be dealt with as suggested by the Viceroy.

No. 185.

VI.

(From His Majesty's Acting Consul General, Canton, to

the Acting Colonial Secretary).

HIS MAJESTY'S CONSULATE GENERAL, CANTON, 20th June, 1904.

SIR,With reference to my letter No. 157 of May 27th. I have the honour to enclose a copy and translation of a Despatch from the Viceroy, in which His Excellency states that Admiral Ho has been removed, and that the minor officials concerned in the HUNG TSUN-FUK case have been dismissed.

I have informed the Viceroy that the case may now be considered closed.

I have, &c.,

C. M. CAMPBELL,

Acting Consul General,

(No. IV.)

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