CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 590

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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of a political nature than such as lie within the legal province of the 1. Allorning General.

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Now in point of fact I am

continually applying to the Maras I Government for help to track refugee Pirates and Criminals absconding to Macao, And I am bound to say that apparently my Officers always receive the most cordial countenance and assistance from the higher Authorities there. It is true that in the majority of escape, never strelifs, many have been captured and given up, whilst in those

coses such criminals

where, through known to have

fled to Macas, they could not be found,. I have had always sufficient reason

a to justify

me in considering that their escape was due to the corupt protection

which they purchased from the subordinates

of the Macce Police, and

any

afsist

9.

in

MO

to

way

disinclination of itv Gaummit to

In that respect the Macos Govern.

ment has exhibited

A

-marked contrast

to the conduct of the Chinese Austerities.

Moreover, it is of extreme cause

w to

The Colony that itcines and robbers should "

& not feel thruseless secured in itive persons

strein plunder, if they can arly escape to Macao, which they may

reach almost

Londoner can reach casily as a London

Gravesend, I have, she fire, far lef

hesitation than the Attorney General about

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