CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933 — Page 78

L.S.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace

The 21st day of July, 1932.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

LORD CHANCELLOR

LORD IRWIN

LORD TYRRELL

SIR HENRY BETTERTON

SIR HORACE AVORY.

WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Report from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dated the 27th day of June, 1932, in the words following, viz. :-

WHEREAS by virtue of His late Majesty King Edward the Seventh's Order in Council of the 18th day of October 1909 there was referred unto this Committee the matter of an Appeal from the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in the matter of the Deportation Ordinances 1917-1931 and in the matter of Sung Man Cho between Sung Man Cho Appellant and the Superintendent. of Prisons Hong Kong and the Inspector General of Police Hong Kong Respondents (Privy Council Appeal No. 9 of 1932) and likewise a humble Petition of the Appellant setting forth that on the 6th June 1931 the Appellant was arrested at Hong Kong and on the 12th June 1931 was re-arrested there under a warrant for arrest and detention issued under the provisions of the Deportation Ordinances 1917-31: that thereafter until the 12th August 1931 the Appellant was held by the Superintendent of Prisons Hong Kong and on the 12th August he was removed from the custody of the Superintendent and a Deportation Order made against him on the 6th August 1931 was served upon him: that on the 31st July 1931 the Appellant obtained ex parte in the Supreme Court an Order for the issue of a summons to all parties concerned to attend and show cause why a Writ of Habeas Corpus should not issue directed to the Superintendent: that on the Summons the Attorney General appeared and showed cause and that on the 20th August 1931 the Full Court decided that the Deportation Order of the 6th August 1931 was bad : that in the meantime a second Deportation Order was served on the Appellant who was then in the custody of the Inspector General of Police Hong Kong: that on the 11th September 1931 judgment was delivered by the Supreme Court discharging the Order Nisi addressed to the Superintendent of Prisons and refusing the application for an Order Nisi addressed to the Inspector General of Police: that the Appellant [19]

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