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4. On the 13th February, 1937, the Chairman of the
Provincial Government of Kwangtung, Wong Mo Chung, addressed
a requisition to the Governor of Hong Kong for the
extradition of the appellant to China for trial on a charge
of the murder of Douglas Lorne Campbell. A certified copy
of an official translation of the requisition is amongst
the papers forwarded to Messrs. Reid Sharman & Co., referred
to in the preceding paragraph.
5. The Governor of Hong Kong having been advised that the
Courts of this Colony had no jurisdiction to try the appellant
the
on the principle of/immunity attaching to a public vessel of
a foreign sovereign state, and on the assumption that the
appellant was a national of China, made an Order under the
Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889, requiring the First
Police Magistrate of Hong Kong to issue his warrant for the
apprehension of the appellant, which such Magistrate
accordingly did. The Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889,
as amended by Ordinance No.17 of 1927, is available in the
Colonial Office Library. Certified copies of the Governor's
Order and Magistrate's Warrant respectively are amongst the
documents forwarded to Messrs. Reid Sharman & Co., referred
to in paragraph 3.
6. The appellant was arrested on the 26th March, 1937, on
his discharge from hospital, and was brought before the
First Police Magistrate, being finally discharged by him on
the 22nd June, 1937, on the ground that he had established
Hong Kong birth and was therefore not a national of China.
(See the extradition depositions referred to in paragraph 3).
7. The appellant was immediately re-arrested and charged
with murder, and brought before the Second Police Magistrate
for a preliminary inquiry. The magistrate finally committed
the appellant for trial on the 13th July, 1937. (See the