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FOREIGN OFFICE,

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its enclosures respecting the case of Liang Tou

charged with the crime of murder in the leased terri-

tory of Kowloon. He has also taken advantage of the

presence in this country of Sir John Jordan, His Maj-

esty's Minister at Pekin, to invite his views on the

various points to which Sir F. Lugard calls attention,

and I am now to offer the following observations for

the information of the Earl of Crewe.

It is stated in Mr. Ross' despatch of the 29th of

March to the Colonial Secretary that according to

Chinese law a man cannot be convicted of murder in the

first degree until he admits having taken part in the

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actual slaying, and this admission Liang Tou at the

date of Mr. Ross' Report, had not evinced any disposi-

tion

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.