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cccasion de offer on the general question referred ti in your desportch; but in

regned

d të the point advated to in the

fallu pout of your

part of your dispatch, namely the right of the Colonial Government de demane from the Chinese Auchorities the surrender

of a Chinese subject ache having committed

a dime in

au

privacy

Kongtong,

which rent no

or a ovine onel

him amenable

to the jurisdiction of all nations indiscriminately, shall have escaped into the territory of the Chinese Empire,

I have to date de

good

that according

le international law, unless it be

aherwise stipulated by Treaty, the

Groomwas of

ng

ache, having committed a crine in another country,

C

have returned to

the county of their Birch and Allegiones. The Chriuese Authorities therefore

are not bound to

give w'r to you any

Chinese subject ache, having commited

crime in Songsong,

hongkong, has fled into

the Chinese Territory. A demand for

the sunencer of such a criminal in order to his being tried at kongtong could rest only upon gronnets of general comily,

and could not be founded upor

any ground & right; and it awould be

a

perfectly sufficient answer to such

a demane, if the Chinese Authorities

that the accused furson

country

is not

a we

li

bound to give up any of its subjects

Day,

had committed in the Animese territories