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osure No.3 in "r. Jumieson's Despatch No. 118, Ceneral Series, of

December 29th. 1909.

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November 10th. 1909.

Your Excolloncy,

I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of Your Excellency's despatch of the 8th. instant,

in which you inform me that, as Ling Tou, one of the

men concerned in the murder of two Indian police officers

on the new territories of the Colony of Hongkong, was

resident on territory leased by China to the British

Crown, he is not on the same footing as a residen in the

Colony of Hongkong itself, and can therefore not be

treated as a British subject.

Against this contention I must enter a strong

protest. The convention of 1898 between Great Britain and

China distinctly states that the limits of British ter-

ritory shall be enlarged under lease, and that within

those limits Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction.

The crime of which Liang Tou, an individual a native of

Excellcny Ydan,

Acting Governor-Genorul of the Liang Kuang,

territory

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