1939-08-23 — Page 23

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writ of habeas corpus respecting the make the application on behalf of the four Chinese in Tientsin came before men, said counsel, and he profoundly Justice Cassels this morning At the doubted whether the men themselves. outset it was announced that the would desire it to be made.

of

proceedings will be heard in open Court.

Counsel said that the writ The affidavit of Lord Listowel, us habeas corpus would not he against President of the Chinn Campaign the Foreign Secretary, who "bna no Committee, contended that the inten-more control over these men than I tion to hand over the four men to the have. All he can do is to transmit o Japanese Government was wholly the British Ambassador in China the unlawful and unjustified. The Bri-effect of such advice as he lins re- tish authorities were not entitled ceived in London."

under the Treaty of Tientsin to hund

over

Counsel further sald that such o

men to the Japanese Gov erament, though the men might be writ did not, and never had, run in handed over to the Chinese authori-relation to a foreigner in a foreign

country.

Handing Over Delayed

then

Sir Walter Monckton maintained that as there was no properly con- stituted Chinese Republie in Tientaln, Mr. O'Connor maintained that the it would not be right to hand over detention of the prisonera Was Ar the men to a usurper's Court. There purported pursuance of the Treaty would doubtless be a properly con- and was therefore an Act of State. stituted Chinese Court in Shanghal It is not open to the Court to examine and a request was made therefrom whether the Treaty is being com- in the last few days for the men to piled with or not. be handed over to them.

Counsel said that within the last Counsel contended

con

was 48 hours the Foreign Office has re- nothing to show that the authorities celved intimation that the Chinese in Tientsin inherited the treaty rights District Court was quite prepared to of the Chinese there, or that there receive the prisoners. Nobody de- was authority for the proposition that sired such a step should be taken the British Government had juris before the decision of the Court is dietion in the matter, though it had given in the present application, no territorial rights-Reuter.

Hearing wo adjourned til to- morrow.--Reuter,

there

Application "Fantastic"

London, Aug. 22. Mr. Terence O'Connor, appearing for Lord Halifax, argued that the Tientsin Court still existed and operated. "The application for the production of the men here is little short of fantasy," he said. "I cannot say what percentage of the Home Fleet might be necessary to secure such production."

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