CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929 — Page 73

homioide or robbery or burning.

directed agalust the ship on which the

"actors are lodged, or against its officers,

"or against another vessel and ite oocupante,"

11. The second contention, that the

action of the 4 took place in Chinese

territorial waters, is but faintly put forward

both in Mr. Wu's Hote and In Your "xoellency's,

and I am not altog ther clear whether what is

complained of is the fact of the bed having

taken action again. t piratas in ühinese ter-

ritorial wutere, or of the Supreme Court

of Hong Kong having exercised jurimilation

over the captured piratas. I do not think,

however, that any uncertainty which may

exist on this point is material, since if the

1. 4 was entitled to capture the pir tes it

follows that the Courts of the flag state had

Jurisdiction to try them. Without entering

into the question whether the whole of Bias Bay

is to be regarded as territorial, His Majesty's

Gove nment do not dispute that the action of

the

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