CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933 — Page 71

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BURCHELLS.

C.T. D. BURCHELL.

A.W.BURCHELL.

PLEASE

- VICTORIA 6431.

20

20 AUG 1932

49 70

OFFIŒThe

H.G. Bushe Esq., COOL, OFFI

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

The Sanctuary,

Westminster, S.W.-1.

Westminster, S.W.1.

19th August,

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19.

C.

DRESS YOUR REPLY TO

THE FIRM AND REFER TO INITIAL

92610/32.

My dear Bushe,

(46)

Nguyen ai quoc alias Sung Man Cho.

I have your letter of yesterday and will see if I

can get hold of Cripps, but my latest news of him was that he

was at some German Bad taking a cure for his indigestion, but

I may remind you that in the Joint Opinion of Cripps and Lewis

dated June last they state, the object of the Governor and the

authorities in Hong Kong has been achieved because the Depor-

tation Order stands and the Appellant will have to leave Hong

Kong, but his destination on leaving Hong Kong will not be

French Territory or any country in which the French hold sway

and he would reach that destination by some ship other than a

French ship.' It would appear therefore that at the date

of this Opinion Counsel held the view that quoc had got to be

deported to any place other than French Territory, and that it

was not for him to select where he would go, and in the earlier

part of the Opinion they point out that 'as the matter stanās

now no decision has been given by the Judicial Committee upon

Section 5 of the Ordinance of 1917, or as to the validity of

what was uone in this case; the Appeal against the Order of

1.