CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4] — Page 404

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 20th April, 1920.

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I have the honour to forward the enclosed copy of a despatch which has been addressed by Mr. Crosby, His Majesty's Consul at Saigon, to the Foreign Office on the subject of a destitute French Canadian named John Le Page.

2.

Mr. Le Page left Sydney, Australia, in December last, with a passport bearing the visas of the Australian Authorities and of the French Consul at Sydney entitling him to travel to Saigon via Manila. The accident that at Manila there was no prospect of a steamer to Saigon led him to come on to Hongkong, where he transhipped to Saigon by the first available vessel. He did not ask for or receive in Hongkong any further

visa on his passport.

Mr. Le Page has stated that he had some £60 in his possession when he arrived in Saigon; and that he had anticipat- ed no difficulty in finding work there owing to the fact that he was of French descent.

3.

With regard to the Colonial Secretary's letter,

which forms the second enclosure in Mr. Crosby's despatch, I

would refer to Sir Matthew Nathan's despatches No.169 of the 28th June, 1905, and No.24 of the 31st January, 1906, which deal at length with the question of destitute Europeans, as it affects this Colony. I feel strongly that it is not only the right but the duty of this Government to refuse, in the interests of the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,

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