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HIS BRITANNIC 1'AJESTY'S CONSULATE,
SAIGON, COCHIN-CHINA.
31st August, 1915.
Sir:-
In continuation of my Despatch Confidential
of May 3rd 1915 conceming the arrest here of two Chinamen for seditious proposals to the Prince Mingoon Min, I have the honour to report the result
of the case in the French Military Courts.
On August 14th 1915 the General Commanding informed me that the se men had been acquitted by
the Court Martial as far as he could see on a
technicality of Procedure. All proceedings before
the Court were conducted in camera. He further
informed me that under the powers conferred on him by the declaration of the "Etat de Siège" he had detained the se men under arrest and was about
to transfer them to the Civil Authorities with a
recommendation that they should be deported. I subsequently had an interview with the Governor who expressed, while stating his intention to deport these men, his willingness to hand them over to the British Goverment or to send them wherever His Majesty's Government might suggest.
This expression of opinion was at once cam- municated by telegram to the Governments of Hong-
kong
His Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.