number of the guard and the flimsy nature of the buildings in which these
men were confined could e not long have detained
C
them had they desired to emancipate themselves. It was undoubtedly beneficial to show by a prosecution that any abuses connected, with Emigration would not be permitted to go
unnoticed and were within the
reach
of
the law and I am
Sorry the Chief Justice shoulds
have dealt so differently with different races of Offenderé as.
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he has done in this instanc
but I shoulds regret it more
importance were
given to newspaper paragraphs on
this subject than they really
deserve.
I must add in conclusion
that the character
of the
HongKong Kess without any exception is so untrustworthy
that I have been
again and
its
again urged (even by the Representatives of foreign powers) to suppress Mendacity by a censorship or by some other despotic
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