homioide or robbery or burning.
directed agalust the ship on which the
"actors are lodged, or against its officers,
"or against another vessel and ite oocupante,"
11. The second contention, that the
action of the 4 took place in Chinese
territorial waters, is but faintly put forward
both in Mr. Wu's Hote and In Your "xoellency's,
and I am not altog ther clear whether what is
complained of is the fact of the bed having
taken action again. t piratas in ühinese ter-
ritorial wutere, or of the Supreme Court
of Hong Kong having exercised jurimilation
over the captured piratas. I do not think,
however, that any uncertainty which may
exist on this point is material, since if the
1. 4 was entitled to capture the pir tes it
follows that the Courts of the flag state had
Jurisdiction to try them. Without entering
into the question whether the whole of Bias Bay
is to be regarded as territorial, His Majesty's
Gove nment do not dispute that the action of
the
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