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in mind that this small

Colony

is in a

position

on

without parallel elsewhere. It is surrounded by the territory of a great and populous Empire, having two sides the mainland of China, and on the others, - islands also belonging to - China, separated from this island and from only by very short intervals

of

sea.

one another

Geographically it is,

of course, a part of China;

and

and it is equally unfair to her and to this Colony that the -

many

criminals a

enormous

among

the

population of the

neighbouring Kwang Provinces should find here a secure

or even

that there

refuge, should be serious difficulty

any.

in returning them to be dealt with by the tribunals -

of

24.

their

country.

But it is obvious,

that under these peculiar -

circumstances an

istances an extradition

law