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of a

offence in China Section 65 provides for persons charged removing from Section 158 provides for the backing a Warrant or Order of arrest in Hongkong and thus authorizing the arrest of the Offender and the delivering him up within the_ jurisdiction of the Court issuing

one District to another and

the Warrant or order of arrest. When complaint is made that an

a

offence has been committed in

Chinese territory by British subjects the complaint is naturally made to the nearest British authority and where an offence is alleged to have been committed just-

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over the line of territory in British Howloong or any of the Islands in the neighbourhood of Hongkong the complaint would naturally be

made here.

it so

In the present instance that the Military

happens

Authorities have jurisdiction

(although it would doubtless have been better for many

reasons

if the trial could have taken place before the ordinary criminal Courts) but if the offenders.

were not soldiers it would seem that we

should have had to tell the

parties complaining to go to - Shanghae

or Canton to make thei