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cccasion de offer on the general question referred ti in your desportch; but in
regned
d të the point advated to in the
fallu pout of your
part of your dispatch, namely the right of the Colonial Government de demane from the Chinese Auchorities the surrender
of a Chinese subject ache having committed
a dime in
au
privacy
Kongtong,
which rent no
or a ovine onel
him amenable
to the jurisdiction of all nations indiscriminately, shall have escaped into the territory of the Chinese Empire,
I have to date de
good
that according
le international law, unless it be
aherwise stipulated by Treaty, the
Groomwas of
ng
ache, having committed a crine in another country,
C
have returned to
the county of their Birch and Allegiones. The Chriuese Authorities therefore
are not bound to
give w'r to you any
Chinese subject ache, having commited
crime in Songsong,
hongkong, has fled into
the Chinese Territory. A demand for
the sunencer of such a criminal in order to his being tried at kongtong could rest only upon gronnets of general comily,
and could not be founded upor
any ground & right; and it awould be
a
perfectly sufficient answer to such
a demane, if the Chinese Authorities
that the accused furson
country
is not
a we
li
bound to give up any of its subjects
Day,
had committed in the Animese territories