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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 27th September, 1919.
My Lord,
I have the honour to inform Your Lordship
that I have had under consideration the question of long term European prisoners in the Victoria Gao1.
It is felt that the climate and conditions
generally are against any attempt being mode to turn such
prisoners into good citizens in the Colony and in many cases
it has been customary to deport such undesirable Europeins on
the expiry of their sentence.
I would enquire, therefore, whether it is
possible, under the lonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884, for
such prisoners, who have been sentenced to terms of imprison-
-ment of 12 months and upwards, to be transferred to a Home Gool, there to serve their sentence and come under the remedial influances that prevail in such institutions in England.
The number of such cases is usually very
small, not more than an average of two a year. The cost of their maintenance in England could be defrayed from Colonial
Funds.
I have the honour to be,
My lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble serymt,
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Officer Administering the Government..
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HE RIGHT HOIDURABLE
VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,
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