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38 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 4, 1927.
ARTICLE 2.
Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences, pro- vided that such crimes or offences be indictable and be punishable in accordance with the laws of that part of the territories of the High Contracting Parties in which the person claimed is found :—
1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning) and
attempt to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the mis-
carriage of women.
4. Rape.
5. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge, of a girl under
14 years of age.
6. False imprisonment.
7. Child stealing, including abandoning, exposing or unlawfully detaining.
8. Abduction of a female with intent to have carnal knowledge.
9. Procuration.
10. Bigamy.
11. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
12. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things
of value.
13. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
14. Arson.
15. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, and larceny.
16. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member or officer
of any company, embezzlement, and fraudulent conversion.
17. Obtaining money, valuable security or goods by false pretences; receiving any money, valuable security or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained.
18. (a.) Counterfeiting or altering money and bringing into circulation counter-
feited or altered money.
(b.) Knowingly making without lawful authority any instrument, or engine
adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of either State.
19. Forgery, or uttering what is forged.
20. Crimes or offences against bankruptcy law.
21. Any act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or
being upon a railway.
22. Malicious injury to property.
23. Dealing in slaves.
Extradition shall also be reciprocally granted for piracy and other crimes or offences committed anywhere at sea which, according to the laws of the High Contracting Parties, are extradition crimes or offences.
Extradition is also to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes or offences, provided that such participation be punishable by the laws of both Contracting
Parties.
Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the State applied to in respect of any other crime or offence for which, according to the law of both the Contracting Parties, the grant can be made,
ARTICLE 3.
Each Party reserves the right to refuse or grant the surrender of its own subjects to the other Party.