CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882 — Page 166

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Surrender to the Chinese.

Government of two Chinese Fugitives charged with the

crime of Pracy, and I am

in compliance

to inform you with the request of the Earl

of Kimberley to be informed

of

the answer

which in

Lord Granville's opinion

should be sent to that

Enquiry,

that

if,

as Lord.

Granville presumes, the

Pracy

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Piracy referred to in the ~ Telegram is Piracy jure

gentium, it would seem that the crime is not within the Extradition Clause of the Treaty of Tientsin, and that

the Prisoners should be committed for trial at the Supreme Court of Hong Kong,

as decided by the Judicial

Committer

of the Privy Council

in the Appeal Case

of

The

Attorney