CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884 — Page 388

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

of

Tientsin, provided they can do

So consistently with the dictates

of humanity, but that, so long

as

torture continues to be a feature

la

the Administration

of the Chinese

Crinonal code, AMG. Count

dispeure with the engagement which has been gir heretofore.

AM.9 need be under no -apprehension of

their ever being

asked by the Imperial Govt to

do

do

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anything inconsistent with

the dictates of heemanity; that

Senkment which in differentages,

Sometimes comparatively recent,

h.. manifested itself in such

that the humanity

different ways

of to day has often become the barbarion If the morons. It is not long since

a crincinal code not unlike that

of China, was considered not incomiendent

with the dictates of humanity in some

of

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