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The
remaining to the Master-
only power remaining
was to
give
lum
in
custody of a police
Officer or Constable to be brought before
Magistrate, but there was no means
him at Hong Kong,
a
of trying
as in the first place the
Naval Court had ordered him to be sent to the
Unikd Kingdom for trial, and not to Hong Kong.
and in the second place the urtresses
and
depoortions had been sent to the United Kingdom.
Neither the Master nor the Authorities at
Hong Kong had therefore any legal right to
detain him
in
enstody, and if they had forably
interfered and transferred him to another Slip
to be sent for trial in
England this Act
would not only have been without legal'
justification, but futile, as they had we power
to compel any
Master to take him and no
Master