CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3] — Page 446

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" request HD. the Acting Governor of

• Hong Kong to at once arrest and hand

"over

for

trial the persons whose

" have been given

"be removed

"the heart

of

so that harm

namo

may

from the people and

Wan

in the

may rejoice?" present instance, on

receipt of your Despatch I ordered

the various civil and military gamèns

stringent inquiries and

to make

report

00

that I might write to you and have the criminals arrested, handed over;

and tried. Fromm an examination of the contents of the

report

which

all the

that have been received and are enclosed, I find that

men in question are

notorious criminals

of long standing

quilty of various crimes

indeed ao

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Rumerous

to be patent to all and to be well known to st. C. the Acting Governor of Hongkong. You state

your despatch that the Government

in

of

of Hong Kong

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are

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withing to areas the : behalf, and the various

cases which are

: may

given against these

brustworthy

Tee taken

ao

evidence. Offender of this class are

an

annoyance

to thina

and to Foreign

Countries and differ altogether from thieves. There will therefore

ordinary

be no recessity to send special. witnessed to Hongkong and considerable trouble will theretry be saved.

I sending you

I have to request that

the above reply

you

will

forward

and request His

it for the information of the Acting. Governor of Hongkong Excellency to hand named in the list ev that orders

over

the criminals

may

the

be given for their trial and- entente cordiale be maintained of

it is recees

necessary

Động trong

I beg

to send sorne

one.

to

to take over the criminals, that you

will write to

that I may dispatch

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Officer for

the