A
152
3.
Later the Consul-General forwarded a
letter from the Department of Commerce to the Secretary of State, United States of America (No. 15,455/1-0 of 23rd. June, 1908) in which it was stated that out of the large numbers of Chinese deported to the Colony of Hongkong only 3 were crimi- -nals (murderers) and that "as the majority of the Chinese who come to the United States of America embark at Hongkong this naturally results in their return to that port in case of deportation". At the same time he "did not seriously object to furnishing the Hongkong Officials information of the intended deportation to that Colony of any Chinaman who is thought to have a criminal record if the matter is regarded as of sufficient importance to justify that course".
4.
I naturally did consider it of sufficient importance, and a voluminous correspondence continuing up to March last has ensued with the Consul-General at San Francisco which has resulted in the United States Marshall agreeing to give a letter to the Captain of the Ship that carries the un- -desirables, but declining to inform this Government by tele- -gram unless I agreed to pay the cost. He has also agreed to send photographs and identification papers of criminals and
that the Captain of the Ship should be instructed to hand them
over to the Hongkong Police.
5.
On September 5th., a deportee named Wy
Yung Foon arrived here from San Francisco on the "Chiyo Maru"
who had been convicted of "murder of 1st. degree" and sentenced
for life and "who was recently paroled by the State Board of Prison Directors, California, subject to deportation to China": letter from Warden of 24th. July, 1911.] On arrival he was hand- -ed over to the Police, but pending any order for banishment he is at large.
6.
On the circumstances as briefly narrated I have the following observations to make:- (a). It would appear that the "deportees" who are sent out of the United States of America under the Chinese Exclusion Acts (of whom as
many