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either party, but would serve to meet the contingency that may arise, though very remote.

It seems to me that a formula such as the following may serve the purpos0, namely:

In case of any offences being committed in the area, the offender, aprehenued by the /olice culled in from the Kowloon leaped territory shall be handed to a Chinese court for trial.

It is obviously impossible for the Chinese side

to agree that such offences should be tried by a tribunal of the Kowloon leased territory; because this, as already

pointed out, would ean that Britian Juciauiction over the ares is completo, and that, indirectly, the clall of the Chinese side to jurisdiction is entirely abandoned.

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