CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933 — Page 46

No. CONFIDENTIAL.

Sir,

Yo

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG, 13th October, 1932.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of the telegram and despatches noted in the margin,

(15)

Telegram from Secretary of State) relating to the appeal to

No.81 dated 29th June, 1932.

(16)

Confidential despatch from

Secretary of State dated 1st July, 1932.

(44)

Despatch from Secretary of State

No.264 dated 10th August,

1932.

invalid

the Privy Council by Sung

Man-cho alias Nguyen Ai

Quoc, and to enquire whether

some contribution towards

the expenditure involved in these proceedings can be recovered from the French Authorities or, failing

that, from Imperial funds.

Prior to the receipt of these claims the

funds of this Colony had already been charged with the payment of $7,500 by way of damages to Nguyen in respect of the detention found by the Court to be ### by reason of defects in procedure and it is realized that this expenditure, though regrettable, is one for which the Colony must be responsible. But the appeal, involving a payment of £250 to the appellants and £391.10.0. to Messrs. Burchells, is, it is submitted, on a very different footing in that

it arose solely out of the pressure brought by the

French

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.