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No. 805.
V.
American Consular Service,
The Honourable
Hongkong, March 6, 1911.
The Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong,
.Ierene0-Leno
Sir,
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With reference to the case of James Kogan, whos arrest preliminary to extradition was asked by this office under instructions from the Government of the United States on March 1st., I am informed by the Captain Superintendent of Police that the information of his department is that Kogan sailed in the St. Albans, March 4th. for Sydney, Austra- -lia, via Port Darwin, Thursday Island and Brisbane, under the name of Rogers.
It is highly desirable that similar escapes of fugitives from justice be prevented in the future and to that end it is desirable that an authoritative expression of the position of the Colonial Authorities as to the scope of th extradition treaties between Great Britain and the United States be had.
As bearing upon the question of extradition from Hongkong to American Consular Jurisdiction in China I am directed by the Secretary of State of the United States to call the attention of the Colonial Authorities to the case of Adsetts who was arrested by the American Consul at Chefoo in 1907 at the instance of the Hongkong Authorities as pre- -liminary to extradition. In this case the accused, under a charge of murder, was arrested under warrant from the American Consul in Chefoo on request of the Colonial Authorities at Hongkong and detained pending extradition proceedings under Consular extra-territorial jurisdiction. The question of extradition in the matter was not pushed to decision for the reason that the accused, while in custody of
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