CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 225

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losure No. 4 in Mr. Jamieson's No. 11, ne furies, of December

lion.

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Mech Race 11 FEB 10)

His Excellency Yalan, Acting Covernor-Gentral

Xuang to Mr. J.W. Jamieson.

29th. 1909.

4355 fine

FEB 7 1910.

Canton, 16th. November 1909.

Hodan Tung, 1st year, 10th. moon,

4th. daj.

"I have the honour to acknowledre the receipt

of your despatch of the 10th. instant, requesting the

extradition to Hongkong for trial of the min Liung Tou,

concerned in the Hongkong New Territory murder case.

I have the honour to point out that, had Liang

Tou been arrested in Hongkong, he would of course have

been amenable to the Courts of Great Britain. The prisoner,

however, was arrested in the district of Hsin-un, and iɛ

moreover a Chinese. The Treaties provide that violent

breaches of the peace, committed by Chinese against Brit-

ich subjects, and similarly acfts of arson anu robbery by

by bad characters, shall be tried and punished by the

local officials of China herself; there is no clauBU

giving consent to the surrender of Chinose criminals

to

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