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for Your Lordship's information
copy of a
a communication which I
directed to be made on
the
subject to the Consul at Canton.
From communications
Enclosures 14th April, 188
6.
reecived
from
Her
Majesty's Chargé
d'Affaires at loking and the -
British Consul at Canton, I fear
that
my refusal to give up Chong Rehi will cause
a.
considerable amount of ill-feeling on the part of the Chinese Government. It is much to
very
regretted if this is the case.
be reg
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It will be difficult to make the Chinese Government comprehend that the Government of Wongkong has done everything in its power - to comply with the demand for
extradition, and that it would
gladly get quit of criminals who take refuge here. The Chinese do not understand the necessity for taking evidence, as it is done in
an
English Court of Justice, before
mplying with such a demand. In a despatch from the Viceroy
which was
resently forwarded to
ne