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persons, merely because in another state
of society other sufficiently deterrent
measures can be adopted.?
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8. I cannot help feeling that such
a conclusion would be unfair to the
state of society which actually exists
here, and just Chinese as the European Community, for
equally interested in the
as hard on the respectable
both are maintenance of law and Order.
19. I can partly illustrate how the proposed system would work, because
already I have consented to grant petitions of prisoners for release from Gaol
on condition that they be deported, being first previously marked on
the left ear. Their petitions in Chinese or are either signed by themselves
or by two witnesses on their behalf, and so far the agreement is a
voluntary one, and whatever be the consequences of a breach of it, the risk of those
consequences is voluntarily incurred by the Criminal deported.
10. Already sixty prisoners have been released on those conditions, and
though a very strict watch has been kept by the Police, not one was
found to have returned till a few days ago, when one was detected in the
commission of a crime. Under the old system probably thirty of those released Criminals at least if not more, would at the