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Custody
as a criminal lunata
during this Trajesty's of leasure, and to request you to inform the So S. for Foreign Affairs that
is
not in a position to auggest
in the Lash~
My British Passosion t to which Mr. Hicks could be sent, since neither
the Strait's Settlements nor
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beylon
appears to have suitable accommodation for comincial lunatics. Moreover
it
is probable that if her. Hicks had been tried
in either
B
those
Dependencies the Governor would have applied for his nemoral to the United Kingdom under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Ach.
2. A
copy of
this letter is
being
dc. (Signed) H. R. COWELL
sect to the Home office.
I am dr.
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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No.F 5310/5310/10.
and address-
not to any person by name,
but to-
"The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
Sir,
RE
FOREIGN OFFICE.
S.W.1.
29th August, 1933.
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I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to transmit
to you herewith a copy of a despatch from the Acting Judge of
His Majesty's Supreme Court, Shanghai, with reference to the
case of Harold James Owen Hicks, who was sentenced at Tientsin
on 14th June last to be kept in custody as a criminal lunatic
until His Majesty's pleasure should be known.
2. It will be observed that Mr. Grant Jones states that
there is no lunatic asylum of any kind in China, and that he has
ascertained that there is no special criminal lunatic asylum at
Hong Kong. Under the provisions of the enactments cited in the
enclosed despatch it appears that His Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs can, conjointly with His
Majesty's Minister in China, order the removal of Mr. Hicks from
his present place of confinement, either to the United Kingdom
or to the nearest British possession where there is some suitable
place of confinement. In these circumstances I am to enquire
whether a suitable place for the detention of Mr. Hicks during
His Majesty's pleasure exists elsewhere in some other British
possession than Hong Kong, and if so whether the authorities of
that possession would be prepared to accept the custody of Mr.
Hicks.
3.
A copy of this letter is being sent to the Home Office.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
A.W.G. Randall
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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