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number of the guard and the flimsy nature of the buildings in which these

men were confined could e not long have detained

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them had they desired to emancipate themselves. It was undoubtedly beneficial to show by a prosecution that any abuses connected, with Emigration would not be permitted to go

unnoticed and were within the

reach

of

the law and I am

Sorry the Chief Justice shoulds

have dealt so differently with different races of Offenderé as.

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he has done in this instanc

but I shoulds regret it more

importance were

given to newspaper paragraphs on

this subject than they really

deserve.

I must add in conclusion

that the character

of the

HongKong Kess without any exception is so untrustworthy

that I have been

again and

its

again urged (even by the Representatives of foreign powers) to suppress Mendacity by a censorship or by some other despotic

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