CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932 — Page 48

Registry No. W 12067/300/17

48

F. O.,

October

1931.

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Draft.

M. Truelle,

French Embassy.

Dear M. Truelle,

I am sorry that we have not previously

been able to give you the further informa-

tion about the case of Nguyen-ai-Quoc,

which was promised in our note to the

Ambassador of September 16th, but we have

only just been able to ascertain from Hong-

kong what the exact situation is.

It appears that after certain prelimin-

ary proceedings, which it is unnecessary to

go into, two orders were issued in Hongkong,

one for Quoc's deportation from the colony,

and another for his expulsion by a steamer

which was leaving for Saigon. Quoc appealed

to the local courts against the validity of

these orders, and it now appears that the

courts held that both orders were valid, but

granted...