No. 7897/374/17
POREIGN OFFICE, 8.4.1.
16th July, 1932.
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My dear Truelle,
ith reference to Mounsey's letter of April
11th regarding the appeal of Nguyen si quoe (Sung Man
Cho) to the Privy Council, you will remember that the
Governor of Hong Kong made an order of deportation
against thie men, and this order provided that he was
to be held in custody and placed upon a vessel going
to French Indo-China. He appealed, contending that
the order of deportation was not validly made under
the law of Hong Kong, and challenged the order in the
courts of liong Kong. The court of Hong Kong upheld
the validity or the order, and „uoc then appealed to
the Privy Council against the decision of the court
of liong Kong.
The Crown accordingly instructed Counsel
to resist the appeal, but Counsel, after studying the
matter, advised that in their view the appeal of uoc
Monsieur Jacques Truelle.
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