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been simply due to the fact that increased experience, and the reading of a very- large number of papers

On

Extradition cases have been

continually enlarging, and to

a

views

of

great extent modifying my this subject; and I satisfied that if I had previously reported, I should

am

have

recommended measures

which I now

regard

as

useless, or almost useless,

in view

of the strange and

abnormal

abnormal conditions with

which we have to deal.

3.

By the Treaty of Tientsin, Article 21, it is - provided that "of Criminals, subjects of China, shall take

refuge in Hongkong

board the British

کم

"they shall,

Oye on

ships

upon duc

there,

requisition

by the Chinese authorities, be

searched for, and, on

4

proof

of their guilt, be delivered

up."

H.

کرو

In the interpretation

of

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