of a
offence in China Section 65 provides for persons charged removing from Section 158 provides for the backing a Warrant or Order of arrest in Hongkong and thus authorizing the arrest of the Offender and the delivering him up within the jurisdiction of the Court issuing
one District to another and
the Warrant or order of arrest. When complaint is made that an
a
offence has been committed in
Chinese territory by British subjects the complaint is naturally made to the nearest British authority and where an offence is alleged to have been committed just-
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over the line of territory in British Howloong or any of the Islands in the neighbourhood of Hongkong the complaint would naturally be
made here.
It so
In the present instance that the Military
happens
Authorities have jurisdiction
(although it would doubtless have been better for many
reasons
if the trial could have taken place before the ordinary criminal Courts) but if the offenders
were not soldiers it would seem that we
should have had to tell the
parties complaining to go to - Shanghae
or Canton to make their