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osure No.3 in "r. Jumieson's Despatch No. 118, Ceneral Series, of
December 29th. 1909.
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H.B.. Consulate-funeral,
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November 10th. 1909.
Your Excolloncy,
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of Your Excellency's despatch of the 8th. instant,
in which you inform me that, as Ling Tou, one of the
men concerned 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 footing as a residen in the
Colony of Hongkong itself, and can therefore not be
treated as a British subject.
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 ter-
ritory 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
Excellcny Ydan,
Acting Governor-Genorul of the Liang Kuang,
territory
Canton