CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885 — Page 277

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them the prompt surrender of the criminals in fuestion, and they feel disappointment that this has not been the case..

As long as it was allowable for the dimperial Gou! to hope that

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means of concessions to the wishes

this object of H. M. Goot

lleng might be attained, they were we to gratify these wishes in so far as it might be possible for them to do so : but now, if the procedure of the Hong hong authorities, in the present case, is to precedent for future ones, be taken as a

will have to conside, whether, in view they of the difficulty which they continue to encounter in obtaining the extradition

of fugitive criminals from stongkong, it might not be possible to prevent them from getting there.

A means of doing this

has

suggested

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suggested itself to the Chinese authorities": that op requiring cliniece anbjecto proceeding to and coming from Hong Kong to be provided Auicene Pamports, but, as that might have a bundeney to feller hade, they would have recourse to it with great-reluctance, and only in the wont-of their being driven to it

by the necessity Spust allowing crime to go imperished.

They, thoupore Acest to the action of the дий British Authorities to relieve them from necessity ofleaving alternative and leaving

demands

lli

to have recourse to such an

Mu

LOTU

satisfied

H. M. Govt as regards the trial

жет and punishment of the 11 criminals, they

be possible for hope that it

may

them

to comply with the present application

their rearrest and extradition, also that,

for

in

Jahère

Treaty

and until the new Extradition

which the two Gooti have agreed

draw up,

cart

to

come into operation, the

surrender of Chinese criminals Grour May Hay

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