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Your Excellency,
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H. B. M'■. Consulate-General,
Canton, 9th. November, 1909.
I have the honour to acknowledga
the receipt of Your Excellency's despatch of yesterday's date, in which you inform me that, as Liang Tow, one of the men eon-
-«erned in the murder of two Indian Police Officers on the new
territories of the Colony of Hongkong was resident on territory leased by China to the British Crown, he is not on the same foot- -ing as a resident in the Colony of Hongkong itself, and can
therefore not be treated as a British subjeet.
Against this contention I must enter a strong protest. The Convention of 1898 between Great Britain and China distinctly states that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged under lease, and that within those limits Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction. The crime of which Liang Tou, an individual, a native of territory in which the British Crown has sole jurisdiction, is charged, having been committed against British Officers of that Crown, is without doubt one of which the Government of Hongkong can alone take cognisance and I must therefore absolutely decline to entertain Your Excellency's request that witnesses be sent to Hsin An to
establish proof of guilt.
I trust therefore that Your Excel-
-leney may see fit to issue immediate orders that Liang Tou be extradited in accordance with my former request to stand his trial in Hongkong along with the other acoused concerned in the
case.
As this is a matter of urgent
importance may I ask for a reply without loss of time ?
His Excellency Yuan,
Acting Governor-General
I have etc.. (sd.) J. W. Jamieson,
Consul-General.
of the Two Kuang,