CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927 — Page 17

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words "liable to deportation" refer to the

conditions precedent required by Section referring to an occasion of emergency

3. The condition/appears to have been

inserted after the War as an attempt to

combine the provisions of the original

Ordinance with the wording of the Imperial

Aliens Order, 1920, but the retention of

this condition would appear to be

unnecessary, and I would suggest that, if

you see no objection, it would be advisable

for the Ordinance to be amended by the

deletion of the opening words of Section

3(2) from "on any occasion" to "danger".

4.

The correspondence with the Straits.

Settlements Government, and the foregoing

suggestion which arises out of it, deals

however, only with the deportation of aliens

and the deportation of British subjects is

im a different category. In this respect

I would remind you that the provisions of

the Hong Kong Ordinance are unsatisfactory,

and