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Emperor of China.

The German procedure at Klaochow is, I understand,

precisely the same Az ours at "ei Fai Fei and it is prob-

able that the Viceroy at Canton, who was until recently

Governor of Shantung, is relying upon his knowledre of the

practice at both places in claiming jurisdiction in the

present instance.

In the lease of Port Arthur and Dalny, which was pre-

sumably the prototype of all these arrangements, it was

stipulated that in criminal cases the offenders were to

he handed over to the nearest Thinese officials, and a for-

tiori criminals who escaped tH to Chinese territory and

were arrested there would be amenable to Chinese furig-

diction.

I had hoped, hefore submitting the question to you

for a legal opinion, to have received the communication

which Mr.Jamieson expected the Governor of Hongkong would

address to me, as I thought it would furnish pranedents

bearing upon the question.

Nothing has, however,

yet

reached