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not
the requisite capacity to endure physical agony. Surely this is not to serve the ends of justice. It cannot see on what ground the surrender can be justified
if a crime then goes
unpunished
and is the criminal.
behind a safe refuge on British Soil? I have answered items in the Memorandum which I drew up for the Society. We can banish
a man
up for
men who come to be charged
with crimes
it is our duty to
ourselves to do so, and if we desire that they should be punished, we must take upon
ourselves
the burden of bringing
and
punishing them ourselves. The De treaty provision of the then Sir
Ch...
was
a blunder or rather
a tissue of blunders. It gave us no corresponding Extradition right
it did not in terms exclude
political offences (the only offences that the Chinese Government cared for)
and it made no stipulation against the use of torture if any adequate
were possible
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I hope that our Committee
will not imagine
that I am
the head of the anti-extradition School. If they will refer to the Wellington
Terries