In any further communication
on the subject, please quote
No. 50760/14.
and address-
The Under-Secretary of State.
Foreign Office,
London.
30
Sausmary August 6
Sir:-
C.O
40843
Red?
Reg2 22 OCT 14
3 Ceci
FOREIGN OFFICE
242
October 2/ 1914.
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit
to you herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, copy of a despatch from the
Judge of the Supreme Court for China enclosing copies.
of correspondence between himself and the Governor of
Hong Kong as to the carrying out by the Colonial
authorities of sentences of deportation after imprison-
ment pronounced by the Supreme Court against persons
sent to Hong Kong to serve their sentences.
3.0
I am to refer to the correspondence ending with the
letter from the Colonial Office No. 40008/1909 of
December 21st 1909 in which letter it was stated that
legislation could be enacted by the Government of
Hong Kong which would obviate the necessity of sending
prisoners back to Shanghai on the expiration of their
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
sentences.