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writs and
enforce in Hongkong the Judgments of the Chinese Courts
in Canton. Such an arrangement in the present state of
Chinese law and administration could not, I was sure,
command itself to the Supreme Court or to Your Excellency's
Government.
I think the Chief Justice, when referring to Article
29 of the Order in Council *when any difficulty is likely
to arise (i.e. in serving a writ on a Chinese defendant
in China) recourse has to be had to the good offices of the
Consul-General' must for the moment have overlooked the
fact that the Order in Council applies only to British
subjects (Part 1, Clause 5).
With regard to the Chief Justice's statement that
Hongkong solicitors are in the habit of themselves serving
writs on Chinese in Canton, I can only say that if this
practice ever comes to the knowledge of the Chinese
authorities, they will most surely lodge a strong
protest with Your Excellency's Government against what is,
in my own opinion, an extremely irregular and reprehensible
proceeding
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