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measure and will need to be convinced that there are

no alternatives which would meet the situation. One

such alternative which occurs to us is that unlawful

possession might carry the penalty of life imprisonment

and that the death penalty should be confined to the

offence of attempted murder by means of explosives,

etc.

3.

I imagine that you have yourself taken a look

at other precedents in colonial emergency legislation

and will know that the Malayan and Kenyan emergency

legislation on the question of explosives was

in severity

comparable to Hong Kong's 1950 legislation. Cyprus

legislation, on the other hand, was much less severe;

this drew a distinction between the use of explosives

with intent to cause death or injury to any person or

persons (which carried the death penalty) and

possession or use with intent to damage property

(which carried life imprisonment).

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