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in the neighbourhood of the Harbour of Hong Kong and was means coaled by from the Fort.
this of cargo boats
I have this day been informed was at anchor that the Wyoming within 200 yards from Green Island whilst the point of British Territory nearest to Green Island is distant one mile and three quarters of a mile. If this be so the Wyoming anchored in the "neighbourhood" of the harbour of Hong Kong but actually in British Waters
and although it is not stated that she was seen coaling at that time the probabilities are that she was also within British Waters when she so coaled. Indeed the complaint made by Mr Milson before W.W. Whyte assumes that the Wyoming
# was within British Waters when the boat was stolen.
by the coolie who was engaged in the act of coaling, otherwise, W.W. Whyte obviously had no jurisdiction.
I understand that when the "Wyoming" coaled from the Port in April last she was lying in Lyemoon passage then being nearer to Chinese than to British Territory. That difference in law from
therefore is
the case