Précis of case of Sung Man Cho, alias Nguyen
ai quoc
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On 1st July, 1931 the Governor of Hong Kong
telegraphed that an Annamite named Nguyen ai quoc was
held under a detention warrant as an undesirable and
that deportation was under consideration, but that the
translation of the relative documents was causing some
delay. On the 24th July he telegraphed that the papers
showed that Nguyen ai quoo was an active communist
and that his deportation would be recommended to the
Executive Council forthwith.
He stated that the detained
The Governor fully
man denied his identity with Nguyen ai quoo and claimed
to be a Chinese, but that there was no doubt as to his
identity; that his lawyers requested that he be allowed
to select his destination and that secrecy regarding his
departure should be observed.
realised the danger of allowing such a person to be at
large, but no offence punishable by looul law had been
revealed and his attorney General advised that it was
against the principles observed by the British Government
to order banishment as a means of effecting extradition,
proceedings for which could not be taken in this case.
He added that the French Consul General had asked to be
informed of the date and method of departure, but in all
the circumstances he proposed, if the Executive Council
agreed, to issue a deportation order and release Nguyen ai quoc from prison under instructios that he must
leave the Colony within seven days from the date of such
order.
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