§ MR. ALEXANDER M'ARTHURasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Whether Her Majesty's Government will lay upon the Table any Correspondence which may have passed between them and the Government of China, relative to the extradition of criminals or the judicial practice of torture in connection with the mixed Commission Courts at the Treaty Ports?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEHer Majesty's Government have been in correspondence with the Government of China at various times, as cases have arisen, on the subject of the extradition of Chinese fugitives by the Government of the Colony of Hong Kong under Article 21 of the Treaty of Tien Tsin, and the undertaking which is given against the use of torture. There is no Correspondence relative to the Mixed Courts at the Treaty Ports. Her Majesty's Government do not propose to lay any Papers at present.