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7577
2 APR US 08
No.
7877
Leas
{Subject.)
Case of Dr Jungal Kew
13. Mr. Davitt,-To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, upon what specific grounds was Dr. Sunyat-Sen banished from Hong Kong in 1896; what offence had he committed or been charged with against British authority in that Colony; was he tried or convicted for any overt act against the laws of the Colony; if so, whether any record of such conviction or trial has been communicated to the Colonial Office:
And, whether the decree of banishment issued against him, in the absence of any such recorded guilt or sectence, will be revoked.
Sun
war
yat.
(Minutes.)
M. Lucas
Sen was
Tuesday April 5th
the Chinaman
who
forcibly detained at the Chinese
in London in the autumn of
Embassy
1896.
of being
He was suspected of
ring.
leader of
the
the alleged plot to
seije (auton at and of 1895. [see 22134/95 & subsequent papers 7.
The Governor reported (last par. of 7908%)
that he had ordered his banishment in case he returned to the folmy, but there
the terms of
is no record here'
K
the order
of banishment which apparently (see 5. 3 of Ord. 8 of 1882) should have contained a statement of the grounds on which he was banished. I have read all these papers