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in punishing malefactors

that it is

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arra)

for the purpose

of bringing to justice refugees

Criminals who would otherwise excapes punishment that

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Extradition treaties and laws

exist.

and certainly

Fientsins

certainly

treaty

to that rule-

when the

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is

the

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excefition

AV QAD

made

manifest risk that the

Colony of Wongsong arnight - became the refuge of the

" Criminal classes of the City of Cantor

Canton and other Chinese

lowns, and it was impossible "that the Colonial Governmen

" could punish Chinese se

for

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subjects

acts committed within the

"territory of China (Kwok-a base page 197. )

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In the present Case

however the Criminals could)

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find no refuge - one asylum

here : for they

were triable. QA

pirates jure genlium,

offenders against English law, I have already pointed

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and theirs were not crimes.

one

justiciable by Country

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out-

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not by) the other ( Re Perman and others 33. Z.

J. (M.M.) 201.)

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