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in mind that this small
Colony
is in a
position
on
without parallel elsewhere. It is surrounded by the territory of a great and populous Empire, having two sides the mainland of China, and on the others, - islands also belonging to - China, separated from this island and from only by very short intervals
of
sea.
one another
Geographically it is,
of course, a part of China;
and
and it is equally unfair to her and to this Colony that the -
many
criminals a
enormous
among
the
population of the
neighbouring Kwang Provinces should find here a secure
or even
that there
refuge, should be serious difficulty
any.
in returning them to be dealt with by the tribunals -
of
24.
their
country.
But it is obvious,
that under these peculiar -
circumstances an
istances an extradition
law