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Government House,
Hongkong, 21st. April, 1911.
In my Confidential Despatch of
27th. February, 1911, I requested your sanction by telegraph
to apply the Garrotter's Act of 1863 to this Colony for
crimes of armed robbery and robbery with violence. I had
desired to include certain phases of the crime of kidnapping
but as this goes beyond the English Act I omitted it on the
strong recommendation of the Attorney-General. I desire now
to place before you my views on this subject.
2.
Kidnapping is of three kinds viz.:-
(a) the ordinary crime of stealing children, or even adults,
and carrying them off to be held to ransom: (b) kidnapping
for purposes of stowing away on vessels especially of fe-
-males: and (c) kidnapping for purposes of enforced prosti-
-tution. With regard to (a), this crime has never been so
prevalent as it now is and the Acting Chief Justice (Mr. W.
Rees Davies) said recently that the Colony "reeked" with
RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.
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