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ONFIDENTIA L.
sir,
CO
7815
907
Rece
Ref 14 MAR
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 10th. February, 1912.
$390521, Nrais.
In reply to your Confidential Despatch of the 14th. of last December, I have the honour to enclose copy of a minute by the Attorney-General, dated the 5th. instant, and to inform you that upon the sworn information of the Acting Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr. A. Mackie, and upon statements con- -tained in a letter dated the 21st. April, 1900, from kr. J. von Oertzen, Deputy Consul for Germany at Hongkong, a warrant was issued for the arrest of a German subject Fritz Max Ulbricht on three charges of embezzlement within the jurisdiction of Germany at Shanghai. On the 26th. idem Ulbricht was arrested by the Hongkong Police and in a letter dated the 28th. April, 1900, Mr. R. Kallen, Imperial German Consul at Canton and in charge of the Imperial German Consulate at Hongkong, applied, in accordance with Article 15 of the Treaty between the Empire of Germany and Great Britain of the 14th. May, 1872, for Ulbricht's extradition. Mr. H.H. J. Gompertz heard the case as Police Magistrate and on the 19th. May, 1900, he committed Ulbricht, who pleaded guilty on all three counts, to Victoria Gaol to await the order of the Officer Administering the Government, Major-General W. J. Gascoigne. Ulbricht was handed over for extradition on the 4th. June, 1900, when the 15 days' detention prior to extradition prescribed by the Extradition Acts of 1870 and 1873 expired and an officer of the
Hongkong
RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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