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Kidnapping to supply coolies for

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"Havanah and Pern used to be

- very rife; the Kidnapping of young persons for imfamous purposes, for sale as domestic "servants_; and as adopted children

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to childless

men is still

"habitually practised. Though

has been suppressed and

piracy

the barrascons of eMacao closed, "the Chinese in the neighbourhood

· of Hongkong still have in their

"blood a

predisposition to

violence and lawlessness.

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А.

"4. HongKong

is an

Asylum

our

- for fugitives from justice for the "mainland. The rigidity of mode of procedure,

"[

our

"scrupulousness not to render

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up political refugees; - the

ignorance of the Chinese officials

of

our rules of evidence combine to prevent many applications "for rendition being made, and, when made, they

are not always,

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"successful.

5. The officials and the_.

" heads of families

on

the

"mainland