G.N.
COPY.288570/25.
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Solicitor's Department,
Treasury.
seventeen years) I was with the Blue Funnel Line, I principally
sailed on ships from Liverpool to ports in the East and I fre-
quently met WON TIP when I was shore in Liverpool. WON TIP Has
never mentioned to me he was born in HONG KONG. I do not know
how old FON TIP was when he left SAI HEUNG but he must have been
about sixteen years of age. To my knowledge WON TIP from when I
was about four or five until I was about eleven years of age,
never left SAI HEUNG. WON TIP is three or four years older than
me. I do not know WON YAU FOO of 144, Connaught Road, Feat
Victoria, Hong Kong. If I had not been told by my parents that
WON TIP was born in HONG KONG I would have looked on him as a
native of SAI HEUNG as it was there I knew him in my childhood days.
(Signed) YU YUEN.
WILLIAM LEE FOO says:-
I am a boarding house keeper and reside at 4, Cleveland Street,
Birkenhead. I have explained in Chinese this statement to YU YUEN
as it was read over by Inspector Burgess and was present when he
(YU YUEN ) signed it and he informed me in Chinese that he understood
it fully and clearly.
(Signed) W. LEE FOO.
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Under Secretary of State,
Home Office.
I thought it advisable to again consult Mr. Branson.
He is of opinion that the Home Office should obtain an
Affidavit from the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or by some con-
petent Official in the Secretary's Department, setting out the .
evidence which he has supplied in File 24.
With reference to the Secretary's observations as to the value
of the evidence, Mr. Branson gathers that a man acquainted with
Chinese customs and with the size of the Village would expect to find
many more people than two who recollect the birth, and that the fact
that only two people can speak to it makes the evidence untrustworthy.
If this is so, the Secretary might well include such a statement in
his Affidavit, making it as categorical as possible. It is of
course quite impossible to do more than indicate the general linea
of the Affidavit, but no doubt the Secretary will understand what is
needed.
Mr. Branson thinks that the evidence of Taui Pak Sow remains at
sent in favour of Won Tip, and it is most important that it should
be rebutted. Taui Pak Sow should be seen if possible and his state-
ments tested. The best method of testing his statements would
probably be to ask him to furnish particulars about Toa Tin, and see
whether he repeats his affidavit or contradicts it. His statement
oould be taken down and verified by affidavit. If Taui Pak Sow has
vanished, an Affidavit showing the efforts that have been made to see
him should be supplied.
Mr Branson added that in his view it is absolutely necessary
that the case should go back to China for the evidence indloated above
to be obtained, because if it is decided to serve Won Tip with a new
Order, the Home Office should make reasonably certain that the Order
will be upheld.
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