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Hang Trong
China
RECP
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\RCCO 14 FEB 84
31st December 1883.
Gentlemen
The late Choef Justice Smale informed
me that.
4 your
benevolent fociety would willingly
take up any application made
of Aborigenes
in
the East. I
came now
favour
by
this to ask your valuable, cooperation on
behalf of cleven Chinese, who are the victims of
- powerful Chinese party in the Province of Canton. These men.
men came to
came to Hong Kong to-
an
protect themselves from mjust prosecution, and¦: the Chiese Government claimed their rendition ? ? from the British Government in force of the
Extradition Act. The question of Extraditing Riminals
10
always.
a
delicate matter,
even
when it is-
by
nations
-muturally discussed and considered
whose advance m Avilisation is regarded as
upon fairly equal towns. It .
the Society for the
was mentioned
not
Protection of Aborigines