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

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never intended, and could, not in my opinion,

properly be held, to cover a case of this kind.

As this is a request from the

Chinese Government through the British

Ambassador, it would seem to be advisable

to let the Foreign Office have a copy of

No.1 and also of our proposed reply. If this

is done I would like to see the draft letter

to the Foreign Office in due course.

I asked Mr.Brass at the Home Office

this morning whether he knew of any similar

request having been made to this country.

He said that he had never heard of one;

and he agreed with me that action on the lines

indicated by the Governor in No.1 could not

properly be taken.

We might enquire at our leisure into

the validity of the existing extradition

Recue to the machinery between Hong Kong and China.

Fo

There

is no extradition treaty between the United

Kingdom and that country, and it would be

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after so have repled o We Lan belgrapher botk.

me

interesting to know what the position is

as regards Hong Kong. In this connection

see the notes by Mr.Brass on the attached

sheet (numbered 2), and also the book on

extradition to which reference is made.

19/3/36.

14. Duncan.