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undertook to telegraph to Hongkong ordering the immediate surrender to
the Chinese authority's
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the prisoners,
who had already been about 6 months
in prison awaiting extradition. Considering the maller
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having
now been definitely arranged, I reported it as settled to the Imperial
Good.
The course of
events have
Shewn this conclusion to have been Premature, for I have now to informe
Ye, that the Viceroy of since reported to the
Canton has
to the Peking Goot
that, instead of complying with the instructions which fir Charles Dilke
: undertook to issue, the Hongkong authorities in December last, that is, six months after the Under Secretary's telegram must have been received, set the prisoners ab liberty. As it does not appear that this was done
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lueause
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the insufficiency, for entradition
purposes, of the evidence adduced
against the prisoners, I have been instructed by the Isung
Li - Yamên
to draw th's attention to the matter,
and
to request
that
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will be
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what-
so good
grounds
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to the terms
to inform me
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also to draw th's attention
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the extradition
Artiell above referred to, and & the inconvenience and constant riiscarriage
a s
in the present
of justice which instance, must inevitably occur, of Considerations equally foreign to the
be Treaty and to extradition wage allowed to interfere with it execution.
But apart from Treaty stipulations, it is hoped that,
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general considerations, Willy will recognize the reccosity of making ther
extradition