The lawless spirits in Kowloon ter tory and the islands are beginning to find out that British justice has x long arm. On passed nce of seven" years' penal the 22nd inst,, the Acting Chief Justice servitude and. whipping on three men who were captured and convicted by the Police of taking part in an armed robbery at Mantung, in the island of Lantao. "The ruffians belonged to a gang who set out from Lamma Island one day and made a descent on Mantung, shooting two of the villagers and carrying off a quantity of under, returning at night in their boats to amma. This sort of thing will not be so easy to carry out under British rule.
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