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19. I have already asked and received Your Excellency's assistance, and I am addressing you fully on the subject in a separate despatch.
20. In regard to the question of extradition I had already on July 6th before receipt of your despatch addressed a long despatch to the Consul-General.
21. I trust that this explanation, which has of necessity extended to considerable length, will satisfy Your Excellency that I have had no intention or desire to depart from the re- cognised rules of procedure in conducting affairs between this Government and that of the Viceroy and that if in the matter of co-operation between the Police of Hongkong and Canton there would appear to have been some relaxation of those rules it arose in part from the way in which the viceroy originated the question, and in part from the urgency of the matter, and the comparative unimportance of the various details which in the aggregate formed a very useful and important whole. On the other hand where through inadvertence I have failed in Your Excellency's view to comply with the strict procedure I have only to express my regret.
I have the honour to be,
sir,
Your Excellency's most
obedient servant,
(Sd.)
F. W. Lugard
Governor, etc.
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