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The

remaining to the Master-

only power remaining

was to

give

lum

in

custody of a police

Officer or Constable to be brought before

Magistrate, but there was no means

him at Hong Kong,

a

of trying

as in the first place the

Naval Court had ordered him to be sent to the

Unikd Kingdom for trial, and not to Hong Kong.

and in the second place the urtresses

and

depoortions had been sent to the United Kingdom.

Neither the Master nor the Authorities at

Hong Kong had therefore any legal right to

detain him

in

enstody, and if they had forably

interfered and transferred him to another Slip

to be sent for trial in

England this Act

would not only have been without legal'

justification, but futile, as they had we power

to compel any

Master to take him and no

Master