CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 216

Enclosure in Sin F. Gordon's Treaty No. 1. Jan. 19, 1910 214

Jamieson's Despatch No. 118, General Series, of December

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H.B.M. Consulate-Ceneral, Canton.

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I have the honour to lay before you copies of

cortain correspondence, that has passed between the

Acting Governor-General and myself on the subject of

the rendition to the Hongkong Authorities of ond Linng

Tou. This individual, who is a resident on the territory

leased to Great Britain under the flonvention of 1898,

ía implicated in the murder, within the confines of

that territory, of two Indian Police Constables, end,

having thereafter fled across the border, was arrosted

by, and is now in the custody of, the lisin-an "eion.

On his extradition being applied for tho

Acting Governor-General replied that, as his place of

birth wa on leased territory, he still retained his

status as a Chinese subject, anu that, having boun

.N. Jordan, K.C.H.G., X.C.B.,

Ac., &c., kc.,

Wis "ujosty's "inister,

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arrested