In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No.
24714/12.
and address-an
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
Iondon.
C.O.
19058
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FORERON OFFICE
June 20
376
1912.
Sir:-
I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th.
4254,
instant, 16254, in which his observations are invited
as to the reply which should be returned to a despatch
from the Acting Governor of Hongkong on the construc- tion of $17 of the Extradition Act 1870 in connexion
with the Extradition proceedings in the case of Vicente
Sotto.
Sir Edward Grey is apprehensive lest the reply
which Mr. Secretary Harcourt proposes to send to the Acting Governor should be too general in its terms
to afford sufficiently explicit guidance to the administrative authorities in Hongkong in the event of
A "particular
a similar question arising in the future.
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case has, in fact, arisen, and as both the Acting
Governor and the Attorney General desire to be furnished
The Under Secretary of State,
Coloniel Office.
with