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"should not find an asylum | within the limits of the Colony.

In these observations there is beyond doubt much practical good sense. The general opinion in this community is that, should the extradition of fugitive criminals

be suspended, the result will be either that more stringent laws must be enacted to scoure their expulsion from this island, or that Hongkong will become

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It is important that

Your Lordship's decision should

be conveyed to me

by telegraph

- with the least possible delay; and

that it should

give precise

instructions as to whether these

eleven men are, or are not

not, to be surrendered to the Viceroy of Canton; who has made repeated applications for their extradition both by letter, through the English Consul at Canton, and

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by a

Mandarin (or Chinese Officer of

of

rank