CO129-559-5 Attempted assassination of Wong Ching-wei- proposed extradition of alleged accomplice 17-3-1936 - 15-5-1936 — Page 21

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. T 6616/6102/374.

and address--

not to any person by name

but to

The Under-Secretary of State,”

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

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IMMEDIATE.

RECERED

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1

7th April, 1936

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Sir,

APR 1936 0.0. REGY

With reference to your letter No.53740/36 of the

31st March, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to state,

for the information of the Secretary of State for the

Colonies, that in view of the doubt which appears to exist

regarding the legal right of the Governor of Hong Kong to

hold in temporary custody the Chinese national who is accused

of complicity in the attempted murder of Wang Ching wei and

whom the Chinese Government wish to produce as a witness at

the extradition trial of certain other accused persons now

proceeding in the Colony, Mr. Eden concurs in Mr. Thomas's

proposal to inform Sir A. Caldecott that his powers under the

Hong Kong Deportation Ordinance of 1935 cannot properly be

exercised to meet the request of the Chinese Government that

this man be held and returned to China at the conclusion of the

trial.

2.

A copy of a telegram which has been sent to His

Majesty's Ambassador at Peking in. this connexion is enclosed

herewith.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

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