CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947 — Page 2

C.I.N.

1 Foreign Office 2 Foreign Office

F.7419/376/10 F.8467/376/10

9-6-47

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30-6-47

This appears

to be a further incident where

the M.K. authorités hold one version of the story

(set out at flag A) and the Chinese authorities another (flag B).

The

Chinese first demanded from H.X.

the release of the twos members of the Po on Peace

Preservation Corps

trial im

described

H.K.

at Al, and

the

who

were committed for in connection t with the incident

handing over of

the Junk. Master & same members of his crew; but

receiving no agreement from Mik., they them approached the Embassy stating that

"according to international practice, soldiers of

are country cannot be arrested, tried or punished by the Government

વ્

another comitry any actions done in the course of carrying out their orders."

for

They

had in

هسنسد

presumably, the

over

informal agreement whereby Chinese soldiers who committed offences in the colony were handed

trial by the Chinese authorities. This on the 27th. informal agreement was terminated Feb. (see Flag C). The incident in question,

for

havever, occurred

an

6th Feb.

but as fir

Mark young points out at xl of flag),

Cluiese did not

the

at the time invoke the

provisions of the informal agreement, and count

therefore refer to it now.

The 2 soldiers have been sentenced to 4 years

imprisonment, and are

This

held in Hang Kamp.

seems to be a purely bral matter, but it

will be interesting to see the reaction of the Chines

to the despatch it flaq E

3.5. Whyte +/2