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CONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

Bre Rraf 26 NOV 10

Government House,

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27th.October, 1910.

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With reference to paragraph 3

(2) of my Despatch No. 330 of the 7th. instant in which I

referred to remarks made in the debate on the Estimates

for 1911 concerning the prevalence of crime in the

Colony, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that in

the beginning of June I had a conversation with the

Captain Superintendent of Police and Registrar-General

on the same subject. We agreed that in view of the in-

-crease of robberies with violence and the appearance of

a new feature of cases in which Chinese were kidnapped in

China brought to the Colony and held to ranson, recourse

should be had to banishment in order to clear out of the

Colony suspicious characters. At the same time a suggest-

-ion was made by Mr. Brewin that the Kai Fong, or Street

Committees organised to stop the dumping of dead bodies

in the streets, might assist the Police with information

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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THE EARL OF CREWE,

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