CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12] — Page 130

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-No CONFIDENTIAL.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

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HONGKONG. 8th September, 1922.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your Confidential despatch of the 29th May, 1922, regarding an objection made by the Government of Indie in respect of the Deportation Ordinance, 1921.

2.

Hongkong is a terminal port for steamer lines trading from India on the one hand and from China Ports, Japan, end America on the other, and many natives of British India land in the Colony for the purpose of awaiting tranship -ment. Included among them are undesirables who have been deported from or refused admission to America and other foreign countries, and, more particularly, agitators and sedition-mongers who have been deported from the Far East to India and have managed to find their way back again.

3. In accordance with the second paragraph of

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your Miscellaneous despatch of the 12th August, 1920, I declared by Proclamation No.3 of 1922, of which a copy is enclosed, that the Order in Council of the 26th October, 1896,

ceased to be in operation in this Colony from the 20th July, 1922. It is therefore no longer possible to take steps for

the removal of undesirable Indians under section 13 of the

Travellers' Restriction Ordinance, 1915.

4.

It will be sufficient perhaps to refer briefly

to two recent cases in order to show what happens or is

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,

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