Correspondence Between the Government of the Republic of Hawaii and Her Britannic Majesty's Government in Relation to the Claims of Certain British Subjects Arrested for Complicity in the Insurrection of 1895 in the Hawaiian Islands

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Book of correspondence related to the issues raised by the British government having under their consideration in communication with the Law Office of the Crown the proceedings of the Hawaiian Government against British subjects for complicity in the recent rising in cases where the persons in question have suffered arrest and detention under the powers conferred on the Executive by the proclamation of martial law, without having been brought to trial. The cases in question which exhibit the same general characteristics viz. arrests on suspicion of complicity in the revolution; more or less prolonged detention in prison; some severity of treatment while so detained; and inducement by undue pressure to leave the country, were these of J. B. Johnstone, Charles E. Dunwell, James Brown, Lewis J. Levey, M. C. Bailey, F. H. Redward, Thomas W. Rawlins, Arthur McDowall, F. Harrison, C. W. Ashford, G. Carson Kenyon, and Edward B. Thomas.