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in order that the simple

be

· extradition process may- applied solely to what suas

Inay

be termed the moveable and fee

changing portion of the population, w

That a change of this

30.

Kind will sooner or later

in

become absolutely neccesary the interest of Honghong alone, I am

quite satisfied. Various causes, and especially the- accumulating experience of the local lawyers, are rendering

extradition more and more.

difficult

difficult. Only that ideas make ' slow progress in China, the almost complete security

which

would

may be enjoyed by Chinese criminals in this Colony already be more sought than it is. But when the position of

affairs in this respect broomes generally known, to eventually it will be known, to the millions

of the neighbouring Provinces,

it may

be taken as certain

that the criminal element

among our inhabitants will

largely