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MI ASKED, . IT WITHOUT COMMITMENT, WHAT OPINION IN HOHC CONG WO DE IF KPRISONMENT THAT REALLY WAS FOR LIFE WAS SUBSTITUTED FOR THE. DEATH PEILITY, Y K KAN REPLIED THAT THIS WOULD NOT DETER CHILESE CRIMINALS. THE DOUBLE MURDERER HAD NOT BEEN DETERRED BY HPRISONMENT FROM COMMITTIG ANOTHER MURDER WHILE IN JAIL, THE CONCEPT OF AN EYE FOR AN EYE WAS CENTRAL TO CHINESE PHILOSOPHY.
5. 1 EXPLAINED THAT PART OF THE DIFFICULTY WAS THAT THE OTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORIES HAD ELECTED LEGISLATURES. THEIR DECISIONS COULD BE REPRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT HERE AS THE EXPRESSION OF THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. THIS WAS WHY WE HAD WONDERED ABOUT A REFERENDIM, Y K KAN KEPEATED THAT HE WOULD IT ADVISE THIS. MR ROTLE SAID
THERE WAS NO HURRY. HE DOUBTED WHETHER WE COULD REACH ANY
CONCLUSION BEFORE THE AUTUMN.
6, CHEGE VEPRESENTATION, IN ANSWER TO KAI'S QUESTICH I SAID THAT I WOULD TILL GHI P'ENG-FEI THAT THE TIME WAS NOT RIPE, I DID NOT THUK THAT THEPPOINTMENT OF A REPRESENTATIVE WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO PROVINE RULATIONS. FOR THE MOMENT I DID KOT SEE ANY VIABLE PARIAHT.
7. ASKED KAN WHAT HE THOUGHT OF THE IDEA OF A TRADE OFFICE. HE REPLIED THAT THE QUESTION OF PROTOCOL WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO GET ROUND, HR ROYLE ASSURED HIM THAT WE WERE NOT GOING TO SELL HONG KCNG DOWN THE RIVER,
8. LATER YR ROYLE ASKED ABOUT POLICE CORRUPTION, KAN SAID HE HAD SPOKEN IN FAVOUR OF A COMMITTEE OUTSIDE THE POLICE SYSTEM. BUT THERE WAS THE DANGER OF LOWERING POLICE MORALE. THE POLICE WERE NOT VERY HIGHLY PAID. WITCHIIUNTING WOULD DISCOURAGE POTENTIAL POLICE RECRUITS EVEN MORE.
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