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that his deportation should be effected to Annam.
In
view of the representations made by the French Ambassador
he considered that it would be embarrassing to have to
explain to the French Government that while that course
was available, His Majesty's Government had not
adopted it.
On 6th August the Governor telegraphed that
a deportation order had now been made but that, pending
the Secretary of State's instructions, service was
suspended.
The application to the Court was still
pending and us it was difficult to justify further
detention, he requested instructions at the earliest
possible moment.
On 7 th August, the Secretary of State
telegraphed that Nguyen ai quoc should be deported to
He explained that in this country it was
Indo-China.
the practice to deport an alien to the country whose
passport he holds or can obtain, and that endeavour was
made to see that an alien went to his own country by
through
providing him with a free ticket to it, but that once
the alien left the United Kingdom, there was no
responsibility for his movements. He added that the
French Ambassador had made representations to the
Foreign office and had handed in a Memorandum stating
that the French Government considered Nguyen ai quoic
a danger to all European possessions in the Far East
and expressing a hope that the Hong Kong Government
would be advised to come to a decision suon us would
"facilitate the task of the Governor-General of Indo
China".
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