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No.25 (6/37T/1938)
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Foreign Office No.581. C.G. Shanghai No. 247. No. 13.
Judge
BRITISH EMBASSY,
SHANGHAI, 9th August, 1938.
Judge's desp- atch No.12 of 4th August, 1938.
Sir,
I have the honour to transmit to Your
Excellency herewith a copy of a despatch addressed to me by the Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China after consideration of your despatch No.14 of the 28th May last regarding the imprisonment in Hong Kong of prisoners sentenced by the Court.
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Your Excellency will observe that the Court's power of sending offenders to the Colony for imprison- ment has in recent years been exercised only in circumstances of real and exceptional necessity and I think you may rest assured that such will continue to be the practice of the Court. As regards the burden of routine work which has in the past been thrown upon Your Excellency's Administration by the transfer of prisoners from Hong Kong to their domicile elsewhere the necessary arrangements for such transfer will in future be made by His Majesty's Consul-General at
Shanghai.
I have, &c.,
(Sd.) Archibald Clark Kerr.
His Excellency,
Sir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.G.,
etc., etc., etc.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
Hong Kong.
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