qualification.
In particular, they do
not seem to admit that these requirements
can justify any British jurisdiction in the
walled city, whatever limitations on
Chinese jurisdiction they may adnit as the
result of these requirements.
irst part of bepara.25.
curdingly the main legal issue is a
simple one nuwely, is China entitled to
jurisdiction over owloon city's a the
Chinese have throughout the dispute and
right up to 1948 based their case on the
Treaty of 1898, it hardly seems necessary to
discuss what, if any,arguenta they might
think fit to put before a court for the
invalidity of the whole lease. it is
conceivable however that Chins might sup ort
her claim to jurisdiction over the City by
reliance on some overriding rights of
sovereignty supposed to remin vested in
China as lessor of the territory in
question and not transferred by the lease.
lâragraph 23 above discussed wint light is
thrown upon the matter b. other leases
granted by China to other Powers in this
period. an investigation has been made to
see to what extent, if at all, any light
is thrown upon it by either (1) discussions
of international leases by legal writers of
authority;
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