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like Gibraltar,

Rather is Hong Kong, again li analogous to the fortified outpost of the =

Grecks, which they denoted by

a word

(euneixions) signifying a stronghold

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placed as to commaud a

foreign

"Country"." It is alse, of course, a great

πόριον). Mart of Commerce. / Eurégier). As has also been often pointed out, the | vicinity of HongKong to Canton and the other great cities of the neighbouring Empire, coupled with the leniency of Euglish as compared with chiese law

have rendered this island them

Alsatia of the disordrely classes of.

southern China. It should be com

remembered

remembered in speaking of

speaking of tauishment

deportation of Chinese from Hongkong, - that those terus practically bear a m

or

different meaning here from what they

bear in other countries. For the Chinese-

sent

this island are not

away from natives of Hong Kong. They

are mucube re

criminal from

of an invading army of erin the mainland . The influve of criminal into this isloud has always been in...

proportion to the vigour in nepressing -crime of the local authorities in the neighbouring Provinces of China that

is really

Banishment meaus fiere is,

repatriation. It is tautaneount to

referir