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Davoli JnewUTISVOJ
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No. 60.
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Confidential.
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Government House,
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With reference to your letter No. 2 of the 10th. January last, I have the honour to inform you that the Hagis- -trate has given notice that he intends to discharge the fugitive Taoi Wai-young on the 19th. instant as he is satisfied that the essential evidence in the case and documents produced to support it are not true and genuine.
2.
The Crown Solicitor, who prosecuted, entirely agrees with the finding of the Magistrate, who has spent several days in hearing the case, and in these circumstances I am not
prepared to entertain any fresh requisition for Taoi Wai-yeung's
extradition.
3.
In my confidential letter No. 30 of the 6th. of
April I was obliged to inform you that I was of opinion that the
Chinese Authorities had trumped up a case against Lo Kwat, who
was merely politically obnoxious to them; and in my confidential
letter No. 32 of the 9th. of April I was again constrained to
inform you that the evidence against Ch'an Yat-ch'un was so un-
-satisfactory that I was unable to entertain a fresh requisition
for his rendition.
4.
The case of Tsoi Wai-young is, therefore, the third in a very brief space of time in which I have been forced to take the extreme course of asking you to inform the Chinese Authorities that they have failed in extradition cases to command the confidence of the Magistrate, the Crown Solicitor or myself, although we are one and all anxious to assist the Chinese Authori- -ties in procuring the extradition of bona fide criminals.
This fact cannot but prejudice the good name of the Provincial Government and render extremely difficult the position of the Hongkong Government which, if the unsatisfactory manner
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