copies of which are enclosed in Sir E. Sabow's des-
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Patch no mention of "torture" occurs, it being merely
stated that the authority by whom the offender is
delivered up, "shall have the right to depute an of-
ficer to attend at the trial, if the circumstances
of the case should be either of a suspicious nature
or of great importance".
On such anunderstanding and if the Chinese of-
ficial be considered as holding merely a watching
brief on behalf of his countryman, without any right
of interference, Lord Lansdowne would see no objec-
tion to the arrangement being considered reciprocal
in character.
In His Lordship's opinion the matter might be
allowed to rest where it has been left by the cor-
respondence exchanged between General Dorward and
the Governor of Shantung, as the case of a Chinees
official being sent to Wel-Hai-Wei to attend the
trial of a Chinese offender handed over by the au-
thorities