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penalty than death, it would be possible for this Government
e
to give greater facilities for extradition; and to make it
more effective by cheapening the process; and to securing
secrecy in the preliminaries to arrest. It would also be of
benefit in the suppression of crime if the jailers of Canton.
were to study the finger print system, or at least the
method of taking finger prints and to send the prints of dis-
-charged criminals to this Government. Finally it may be
possible to inform the Viceroy of the names, and to furnish
him with the photos and identification particulars of crimi- on release from puson for serious crines -nals who have been deported to China, provided that they
have previously been liberated and have had time to proceed
whither they desire. It is along such lines that I propose
that closer co-operation may take place between the two
Governments for the suppression of criminals who at present
baffle both by escaping from the jurisdiction of one to the
other.'
2.
Mr. F. J. Badeley and Captain F. W.
Lyons both urge that deportees should be handed over to the
Chinese Authorities. This has heretofore been rightly con-
-sidered impracticable since the Chinese Government would
probably