No. 305
Copies to:- F. 0. No. 92
Peking No. 132
Swatow
H.B.M.Consulate General,
Canton.
August 5th, 1927.
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His Excellency,
The Governor,
HONGKONG.
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I have the honour to refer to Your
Excellency's despatch to the Colonial office
No. 328 of the 14th July, of which you have been
kind enough to send me a copy. The despatch
deals with the legal difficulties involved in
extraditing fugitive Chinese offenders from
Hongkong to China, and as the subject is of great
importance to British relationa with the Canton
Government, i venture to offer the following
observations in the hope that they may be found
useful.
2. In the first place, I would draw Your
Excellency's attention to the bill for sumending
the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889, enclosed
with your deanatch under acknowledgment. It states
that action 2 of the ordinance is amented by the
repeal of the definition of "Chinese Government'
and by the substitution therefor of another de-
finition. I have, however, been unable to find
any definition of the term "Chinene Goverment"
other part of the
either in section 2 or any
ordinance.
If there is an amending ordinance
dealing