CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3] — Page 321

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Government House MAR 10

Hongkong, 25th January, 1910.

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I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of

your sypher talegram of yesterday, and your confirmatory des-

-patch this morning, informing me that His Majesty's Minister

at Peking has telegraphed to you to the effect that the Foreign

Office consider that Liang Tou should be tried in China as was

done in the Hung murder case.

follows;*

The facts of that case are very briefly as

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A notorious rebel named Hung Tsun-fuk was

wanted by the Chinese Government who offered a large reward for

him. He was in Hongkong. A gang of men from Canton murdered in

Hongkong a man resembling Hung in personal appearance and con-

-reyad the body to Canton in order to get the reward. Weither

the murdered man nor the murderers were British subjects. The

murderer was arrested and tried in Canton by the Chinese and

executed in the presence of British Consular Officers.

You will observe that this case does not

bear upon the one now at issue, since the murderers and their

victim in the Hung case were Chinese subjects, while in the

present case it is claimed on the authority of the letter from

Mr. J. Chamberlain of which a copy was forwarded to you with my

Despatch of the 29th, of last November, No. 112, that the

murderer was a British subject as well as the murdered man.

The only point at issue in the present

case is the one raised by His Excellency the Viceroy, viz.:-

whether China is compelled to recognise the inhabitants of the

leased territories as British subjects. Relying on the opinion

of