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Kidnapping to supply coolies for
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"Havanah and Pern used to be
- very rife; the Kidnapping of young persons for imfamous purposes, for sale as domestic "servants_; and as adopted children
"
to childless
men is still
"habitually practised. Though
has been suppressed and
piracy
the barrascons of eMacao closed, "the Chinese in the neighbourhood
· of Hongkong still have in their
"blood a
predisposition to
violence and lawlessness.
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А.
"4. HongKong
is an
Asylum
our
- for fugitives from justice for the "mainland. The rigidity of mode of procedure,
"[
our
"scrupulousness not to render
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up political refugees; - the
ignorance of the Chinese officials
of
our rules of evidence combine to prevent many applications "for rendition being made, and, when made, they
are not always,
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"successful.
5. The officials and the_.
" heads of families
on
the
"mainland