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servera.
3.
The judicial police are provided by
the Municipal Council but are appointed by the
Court. They are in theory the servanta of
Court and under the agreement they may be dis-
missed by the resident of the Court upon cause
shown.
7. It will be remembered that during the negot-
iations for the agreement, the chinese did their
best to resist the demand that the judicial police
should be supplied by the Council and even after
the establishment of the Courts, there was some
difficulty in getting the Chinese authorities to
accept the present judicial police arrangements
which go rather beyond what was contemplated by
the agreement. The system has since worked
amoothly, largely because the Council have been
ca:eful not to abuse the powers they possess
through the police to interfere with court orders.
8. The above will explain why I am reluctant
to bring the Council into conflict with the Chinese
judiciary, except for a matter of fundamental
principle, where our case is clear under the
treaties. I would not hesitate to do so in
defence of the extraterritorial rights of ordinary
British subjects, but I would urge that a legal
question of this nature should be decided in
accordance with legal principles, and as regards
persons with dual nationality, the accepted
/international
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