CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9] — Page 330

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RECS Rrat 29 SEP 11

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 7th. September, 1911.

219828.

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt

of your Despatch No. 219 of July 22nd., enclosing copies of

correspondence with the Foreign Office on the subject of extra-

-dition of Chinese from Hongkong.

2.

I fear that the brevity of the summary

in which I reported the points raised by Mr. Wei Han (which I

did not seriously entertain) have caused a misunderstanding of

the meaning I had intended to convey.

3.

Mr. Wei Han as stated in my minute form-

-ing an enclosure to my Despatch of 22nd. April, 1911, No. 150,

asked that in order to avoid the sending of a large number of

witnesses to Hongkong (when extradition was applied for) their

evidence might be taken by the Consul, and sent to Hongkong to

be put in at the trial. He was informed (see enclosure 1 in

Despatch

E RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P..

&c.,

&C.

&c...

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