CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933 — Page 37

TIG NG KONG.

SECRET

Sir,

Eng on 92610/1/32 Secret.

75

36

Downing Street,

11

December, 1932.

:

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of kr.Southorn's despatch of the 27th of October, 1932,

regarding the case of Sung Man Cho alias Nguyen Ai Quoc,

with which was enclosed for verification a copy of a

paraphrase of my cypher telegram No.124 of the 8th of

October, 1931, and to inform you that the word "not"

in the sentence: "His coming to England would not be

objected to by the Home Office" in the paraphrase

forwarded, is, as was suspected, a mistake.

2. There is no longer in existence any copy of the telegraphic groups sent, but a copy of the original

message enciphered is still available. A close

paraphrase of it reads "Home Office most unlikely to agree to Nguyen coming to England", and from this it

appears that in order to make the sense of the messa e

as sent the sme as that of the paraphrase forwarded with the despatch under reply, it would have been necessary for the words "most likely" to have been enciphered instead of the words "most unlikely". In view of the

clarity of the sentence in question, that seems very im-

probable. It therefore seems almost certain that the

mistake arose when the paraphrase of the telegram was made in Hong Kong.

3. I should be glad to know whether the

misunderstanding to which reference was made in the

LOVERNOR

SIR WILLIAM P3L, K.C.M.C., K.B.E.,

&G.,

&C..

&c.,

first