CO129-559-5 Attempted assassination of Wong Ching-wei- proposed extradition of alleged accomplice 17-3-1936 - 15-5-1936 — Page 27

T 6102/6108/374

Sir,

4.5.1.

28th March, 1936

I am directed by Fr. Scoretery den to invite reference

to your letter No. 53740/36 of the 20th March regarding the

proposal of the Governor of Hong Kong to exercise his sovers

under the Hong Kong enortation Ordinance of 1938 in order to

ensure the return to Chinese territory of an alleged accomplice

in the attempted assassination of the former hinese Poreign

Minister ang Ching-wei, whom the Chinese Government are

sending to the Colony under escort for the purnose of giving

evidence in the extradition trial now aroceeding of persons

accused of complicity in the crime.

VP.

-den assumes that in promosing to disallow the

Governor's proposal “r. Georet ry Thomas has regard to the

primole that deportation procedure should not be used as a

substitute for extradition proceedings and to the fact that,

since the accomplice whose evidence is required in Hong Kong

ia an eccused person in China it would not be proner, once he

has been introduced into the Colony, to seek to secure

return to Chins by any "rocedure other than that of extradition.

I am, however, to observe, for the consideration of

r. Thomas, that Wr. Eden regards it as desirable from the

political point of view that an ttempt should if nossible be

made to comply with the request made by the Chinese Government

on this ocassion, since it would be a matter of no little

3. I am,

The Under Tecretary of State,

Colonial office.

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