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when addressing the Foreign Office stated in paragraph 2 that
you were inclined to agree with the reasons set out in my
Despatch of April 22nd. for advocating this course.
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Sir Edward Grey, however, fears that if
extradition were applied for and granted for offences other
than "capital or very grave crimes", it might result in "Great
Britain making itself a party to and facilitating a system by
which very drastic punishments might be inflicted for com-
-paratively trifling offences" This view (it is inferred) is
supported by Mr. Wei Han's evident recognition of this result
as shem by his undertaking that all extradition cases should
not be followed by execution, but Sir Edward Grey fears that
there may still be a risk of disproportionate punishment from
a European point of view, and even of the infliction of
torture.
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On these remarks I have the honour to
submit the following observations. In the first place I may
point out that Mr. Wei Han pledge regarding the non-infliction
of capital sentences was merely a repetition of my own request
as explained in my Despatch No. 204 and by no means bears the
interpretation put upon it that a punishment only short of a
capital sentence might and probably would be inflicted for
trivial
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