No. CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir,
Yo
45
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG, 13th October, 1932.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of the telegram and despatches noted in the margin,
(15)
Telegram from Secretary of State) relating to the appeal to
No.81 dated 29th June, 1932.
(16)
Confidential despatch from
Secretary of State dated 1st July, 1932.
(44)
Despatch from Secretary of State
No.264 dated 10th August,
1932.
invalid
the Privy Council by Sung
Man-cho alias Nguyen Ai
Quoc, and to enquire whether
some contribution towards
the expenditure involved in these proceedings can be recovered from the French Authorities or, failing
that, from Imperial funds.
Prior to the receipt of these claims the
funds of this Colony had already been charged with the payment of $7,500 by way of damages to Nguyen in respect of the detention found by the Court to be ### by reason of defects in procedure and it is realized that this expenditure, though regrettable, is one for which the Colony must be responsible. But the appeal, involving a payment of £250 to the appellants and £391.10.0. to Messrs. Burchells, is, it is submitted, on a very different footing in that
it arose solely out of the pressure brought by the
French
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.