CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 484

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Hang Trong

China

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31st December 1883.

Gentlemen

The late Choef Justice Smale informed

me that.

4 your

benevolent fociety would willingly

take up any application made

of Aborigenes

in

the East. I

came now

favour

by

this to ask your valuable, cooperation on

behalf of cleven Chinese, who are the victims of

- powerful Chinese party in the Province of Canton. These men.

men came to

came to Hong Kong to-

an

protect themselves from mjust prosecution, and¦: the Chiese Government claimed their rendition ? ? from the British Government in force of the

Extradition Act. The question of Extraditing Riminals

10

always.

a

delicate matter,

even

when it is-

by

nations

-muturally discussed and considered

whose advance m Avilisation is regarded as

upon fairly equal towns. It .

the Society for the

was mentioned

not

Protection of Aborigines