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BRITISH THASS SEP 2_1912 ·
KINWO, MAINE,
August 19, 1912
sir.
With reference to your despatch No. 302 of June 27th last
relative to the deportation of Chinese immigrants from the
United States to lionghong I have the honour to transmit to
you herewith copy of a note on the subject which I have received
from the United States Government in reply to the representa-
tions which I addressed to them.
The United States Government first alleges, in answer to
my representations based on your despatch under reply that
no Chinese had ever been deportedin the past on criminal
ground and that such deportations, if they ever occurred in
the future, must of necessity be extremely rare. The ground
of exclusion was, and would continue to be, simply the Chinese
Exclusion Law.
This, I have no doubt, is the case, although the Assis-
tant Decretary of Commerce and labour informs me that he does
1 remember one case of criminal deportation, but only one.
therefore confined myself to requesting that whatever the
might ostensible ground of deportation in any given case may be,
the Authorities would communicate to the nearest üritish
Consular Officer any information they might possess tending to show that the deportes had a criminal record, and also the various means of identification etc. mentioned in, the letter
I am instructing of the Hongkong Government of May 9th last.
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The Right Honourable
Sir Edward Grey, Bart., K.G.,
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