CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932 — Page 88

IN

In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No: W.8756/300/17

and address-

but to

! to any person by name,

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

Sir,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.V.1.

1st August, 1931.

87

(6)

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter No.82837/31 of July 28th

concerning the arrest of the Annamite Ngu Yen Ai quoc.

2. Mr. Henderson notes that this man, though under

detention, has committed no extraditable crime, but that

there appear to be legal grounds for his deportation from

Hong Kong. He understands from the Secretary of State

for the Home Department that in a case of deportation the

practice in the United Kingdom is to deport the alien to the

country whose passport he holds or can obtain and not to any

other country.

3. If the alien holds no passport and none can be obtained

by him or for him he may be told to leave the United Kingdom

under his own arrangements.

4.

In either case the United Kingdom has no responsibility for the alien's movements when once he has left the United

Kingdom but in the first case endeavours are made by obtaining

a through ticket to the alien's own country to see that he

goes there.

5. of Annam and his presence in China would be open to grave objection, Mr. Henderson would suggest, for the consideration of Lord Passfield, that his deportation should be effected to Annam in accordance with the procedure outlined above.

As Ngu Yen Ai Quoc has been identified as a native

In

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.