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Enclosure No. 3 in No. 489 to Foreign Office of August 7th 1922.

Government of India to H.M. Minister, Peking, 29/6/22.

Rir,

I am directed to refer to your letter No. 2532/22,

dated the 12th April 1922, addressed to the Secretary to the

Government of India, Foreign Department, inquiring whether

the Government of India are willing to accept transfer of a

convict named Abdul Jabar, a British Indian subject, who

has been sentenced to penal servitude for life.

2. In reply, I ma to say that the Government of India

are unable to give a definite reply in the matter without

previously consulting the local Government of the province

to which the convict belongs as to whether accommodation can

be provided for him. I am therefore to request that full

particulars regarding the convict, viz. father's name, caste,

residence village, district and province - may be furnished

to the Government of India with a view to the necessary en-

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quiries being made from the local Government concerned. I

am to add that the Government of India eventually agree to

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accept transfer of the convict it will probably be on the

condition that the annual maintenance charges and the cost of

transfer are borne by the Hongkong Government, or the British

Legation, Peking.

(Signed) C.T. GWYNNE.

Deputy Secretary to the Government of

India.