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arrecting to the Police pursuing British subject in Chinese any "Territory," practice and is in such in if any fact continued the present day, the Law Officers consider such arrest is to be regarded on as a matter of sufferance on the part of the Chinese Authorities, and not as a matter of Treaty Right on the part of the British Police, for the provision the Treaty of in question of Hooman-Chae not having been incorporated with the Treaty of Tiintoin, Tientsin, must be held to have been abrogated by Art:;. of Treaty that
The Law Officers think it hardly necessary negative to answer in the the second question of Law raised by Sir R. Macdonnell. There being no Treaty Right, in the Law Officers opinion, which entitles British Government Officers to pursue and arrest British subjects who may escape into Chinese Territory, if there should be in practice any comity in suck