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me
follows:-
by the Consul at Canton, referring to some other pirates and smugglers whom he wants this Government to assist him in capturing, he writes as
"As to the offences of which they have been guilty under Chinese law the fact of their arrest shews that they have committed an offence.
The Viceroy does not refer here to
had
arrest that actually been made,
but to possible future arrest of
Pirates,
some
of
whose
Names
are
As
877
yet unknown to him, which he trusted would be made in the
- neighbourhood of Hongkong by- Chinese gunboats with the co-
operation of the Hongkong Government,
that if any
and he
Men
argues.
such
fleeing from pursuit by
Chinese gunboat
were to be
A
arrested on shore by the Hong Kong
Police they should be at handed over.
7°
once
In all these cases
of
extradition some ill-feeling is
sure to be produced. According
to
As
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