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SECRET.
Copy to: Singapore.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG, 22nd March, 1933.
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Sir,
With reference to paragraph 4 of my secret despatch of the 8th December, 1932, I have the honour Sear to bring to your notice the position created in Hong
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Kong by the ease with which a class of offenders still
labelled "political" can take refuge in the Colony from elsewhere, as illustrated most effectively by the cases
of Nguyen Ai Kwok and Tan Malaka. These individuals
have already been the subject of separate and prolonged communication with the Colonial Office.
2. They were very notorious and were guilty of revolutionary activities of the red communistic nature,
the one in Indo-China and the other in Dutch East Indies,
and both would have been most severely dealt with if arrested in the country of their activities. Both
however managed to escape to Hong Kong where they were arrested and detained under the Deportation Ordinance as persons whose residence here would be dangerous to the
peace and good order of the Colony.
3. The case against either prisoner was clear beyond any doubt, but difficulties at once arose when actual expulsion from the Colony came to be considered.
It
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.