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H. B. M. Consulate-General,

REG 5 FEB 10

Canton, December 1st., 1909,

I have the honour to refer to Your

Excellency's communication of the 16th. ultimo, with reference

to the case of Liang Tou, accused of participating in the murder

of two Indian Police Officers in the New Territories of the

Colony of Hongkong.

It is therein contended that,

whereas this man was arrested within the Hainan District and is

& Chinese subject, so far from there being a Treaty obligation

to hand him over to the Colonial Authorities for trial, he

should, in terms of the Treaty, be dealt with by the Hsinan

Magistrate.

A few remarks are added with

regard to the leniency of British judicial procedure, as comTM

-pared with Chinese methods of justice.

In reply I would offer the follow-

-ing observations. Comparative leniency in the administration of

justice does not enter into the discussion at all; the real

and only points at issue are the national såatus of the accused,

and the jurisdiction to which he is amenable.

In Your Excellency's communication

of November 8th., it is claimed that the New Territories,

having been merely leased to Great Britain, they are nét on the

same footing as lands belonging to the British Crown, and that

Chinese residents within these territories, therefore, still

retain their status of Chinese subjects. Against this dictum I

had, on November 9th., the honour to protest, on the grounds that, in the terms of the Convention of 1898, in the leased

territories Great Britain has sole jurisdiction, and this

protest I desire now strongly to re-iterate.

Your Excellency is, of course,

aware that relations between States are governed by well known

principles