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Ordinance.

Section 3: It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council upon

the application of a Chinese authority, made in such

form and accompanied by such documents and

certificates as the Governor may from time to time

require, to make an order for the surrender to such

authority or any delegate recognised by the Governor

of any Chinese national who, during the war period,

has, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, done

in any part of China any act or thing designed or

calculated to benefit the enemy or hostile or

detrimental to or designed or calculated to defeat,

hinder or prejudice the casue of the

nited Nations

喃喃

or the prosecution of any war in which any of such

Nations were engaged.

Section 13: Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed as

derogating from any authority to order the surrender

of a fugitive oriminal under the provisions of the

Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889, or to order the

deportation of any alien under the provisions of the

Deportation of Aliens Ordinance, 1935.

40.

Your Petitioner respectfully pleads that His Excellency

the Governor-in-Council of Hong Kong should be directed to refuse

to make an order for the surrender of Your Petitioner on any of

the following grounds :-

(a)

That the alleged acts of collaboration do not constitute

collaboration with the Japanese enemy and that in trush

and in fact Your Petitioner had during the occupation

period steered a difficult course of loyalty and had in

so doing done service to the Allied cause.

(b) That the facts as disclosed leading to the demand for

surrender indicate that the demand was not a genuine one

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