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Effective extradition is the obvious remedy to this there are but the familiar British objections, which become unusually inconvenient in a country where plunder and murders are sufficiently wholesale to affect the dignity of political offences; _ and unusually strong when the delivery of an alleged criminal signs his fate to trial and punishment by torture.

In fact we cannot properly repress crime without common action of British and Chinese Courts, but this common action is hardly possible while the procedure of Chinese Courts is so barbarous that we cannot invoke their assistance and our procedure is treated as defeated by technicalities as to be inadequate and practically ineffective for the repression of crime.

This is the state of things on which the Treaty of Tientsin has to act. Its provisions as to extradition and criminal jurisdiction are as follows:

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391 Effective extradition is the obvious remedy to this there are but the familiar British objections, which become unusually inconvenient in a country where plunder and murders are sufficiently wholesale to affect the dignity of political offences; _ and unusually strong when the delivery of an alleged criminal signs his fate to trial and punishment by torture. In fact we cannot properly repress crime without common action of British and Chinese Courts, but this common action is hardly possible while the procedure of Chinese Courts is so barbarous that we cannot invoke their assistance and our procedure is treated as defeated by technicalities as to be inadequate and practically ineffective for the repression of crime. This is the state of things on which the Treaty of Tientsin has to act. Its provisions as to extradition and criminal jurisdiction are as follows:
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Effective extradition is

the obvious.

remedy

to this there are

but

th

familiar

British objections, which

become unusually incon-

venient in a

country where

plunder and murders are

sufficiently wholesale to affect the

dignity of

political offences; _ and

unusually strong when

the delivery of.

con

Att

alleged

Criminal signs hir

to trial and punishment. by torture.

In fact we cannot properly repress crime

without common.

of burglish

action

and Chinese

Courts

Pectin

Courts, but this common

action is hardly possible

while the procedure of

Chinese Courts is

barbarous that we

cannot invoke their

Assistance and

hatta ä

-

hade uns in Hilfr

our procedure is

Trate the defeated by technicalition

helwell as to exe forme. as to be inadequat.

sically ineffective for the repression of erine

This is the state of

things

on which

the

Treaty of Jeen-ssin has

to act.

Its provisions as to

extradition and criminal

as follows

jurisdiction.

are as

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