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REG 10 JUL 14

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 17th. June, 1914.

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Sir,

∙1933-4

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

your telegram of the 29th. ultimo to the following effect:-

My Despatch of 31st. March, No. 65, Secretary of State

for Foreign Affairs suggests that sentence should be

comuted to penal servitude for life:

2/508 and to confirm my reply of the 12th. instant which was as follows:-

Your telegram 29th. May case under consideration very bad

one and in interests of discipline shall feel constrained

to allow sentence of Court to be carried into effect if

the matter should be left to my decision.

2. I considered the case of Ibrahim in Executive

Council on the 11th. instant and the majority of the Council advised,

on the assumption that power to review the sentence lay with me,

that the law should take its course. With this advice I concurred

for the reasons indicated in my telegram.

GR

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble servant,

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P..

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