CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927 — Page 6

CONFIDEN NTIAL

20 July

6

28132/27.

sir,

With reference to the letter from this

Department of the 8th June on the question of

amending the law in the Straits Settlements and

the Federated Malay States, so as to provide wider

powers for the banishment of political or revolu-

tionary agitatore, I am directed by Mr. Secretary

be laid before

Fr.H.0.15.6.27 Amery to transmit to you, to

Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain the accompanying

copy of a letter from the Home Office, suggesting

that the object aimed at might be achieved by

amendment of the law so as to correspond with the

wording adopted in the Imperial Aliens Order, 1920.

2: Mr. Amery concurs in this suggestion, and

he now considers it umecessary to refer the

question to an Interdepartmental Conference, as

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE

FOREIGN OFFICE.

suggested