Burdett then announced that rt had received a letter from the Cantonese authorities in which they requested the handing over the accused as they wished to prefer ges against him for activities it that city, 'I the Hongkong Government has no objection," he said, "and. tha police of this Settlement are willing. that the accused should be handed over, I will not object either. The accused is not a bow fide resident! of the Settlement and therefore, I see no reason why he should not bbe handed over Mr. Badeley then spoke for the Hongkong Government and said! there was no objection to the accused being handed over to the Cantonese officials, Mr. Liew raised the opinion that Yeo was a resident of Shanghai and as such it was not within the power of the Court to send him to Canton to face charges before a cout.
Me. Bryan then gave a el rendition of the Police interpretation the Agreement clause in question. He said, "The police have no objestion tothe handing over of ths accused and I should like to outline resident of the Settlement the police always insist that a prima facie case be made out first, but when the accused is not such a resident and it is proved that he is a fugiti from justice, then also the prime facie case has to be made out. but that is done by the receipt of the despatch warrant.
In the case of the accused he is] 4 fugitive from justice, the warrant has been produced, and he is not ident of the Settlement in the meaning of the term that I have just used, and following out the Policy of the Police, T say agai that we have no objection to the handing over of the accused."
Reason for Visiting Shanghai A vigorous protest came from Mr. Lieu at this point. He said, "The policy of the police is Hable to a lot of variation and the police counsel cannot produce this policy in writing. The accused is not a fugitive from justice but came to Shanghai to. establish a business here."
Mr. Bryan replied by outlining to the Court the article in question arti Iso by forestalling Yeo's attorneys in what looked their intended line defence.
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