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REGP 15 AUG 19
August 2nd, 1899.
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Sir:-
The Chinese Minister called on me to-day and informed me that he had been instructed by his Government to approach me with a view to more satisfactory arrangements being made in regard to the extradition of fugitive criminals from Hongkong to China.
He left with me a note of which I enclose a copy stating the views and wishes of his Government on this subject.
I promised that Her Majesty's Government would give the matter their careful consideration, but I observed that the cruel punishments inflicted by the Chinese made the execution of the extradition laws at Hongkong very difficult.
Sir Chichen Loh Feng-luh did not mention the political question raised by the Chinese Government
Bax-Ironside, Esq.,
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