ONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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REC
Pan 9 SEP 10
Government House,
Hongkong, 9th. August, 1910.
2800-7
With reference to the 9th. para-
-graph of my Confidential Despatch of this date, I have
the honour to inform Your Lordship that in years gone bye
it was the practice for the Police Department to take
charge of cases in the Police Court for extradition of
fugitive criminals from China. Gradually the practice
sprang up of the Chinese Authorities engaging Solicitors
to prosecute these cases. After a time this led to com-
-plaints by the Chinese Authorities of the expense
involved, and the Government arranged that the Police
should again conduct the prosecutions. Subsequently
there was another relapse to the system under which the
Chinese Authorities engaged Solicitors in private practice
to prosecute. The Firm of Solicitors employed was not of
a high class and in a case in 1905 a questionable
transaction by which a witness for the defence in an
extradition case was caused to disappear from the Colony,
came
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREVE,
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