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LORIVED

Z/J:EB. X SECRET.(2)

14 NOV 1939

Sir,

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¡Government House

Hong Kong.

30th October, 1939.

In accordance with Section 18 of the Deportation

of Aliens Ordinance, 1935, I have the honour to report

that, with the advice of my Executive Council, I have made summarily a deportation order for life against an alien, Basil Ephremovitch de Kanel, under sub-section 1(c) of

section 3 of the above mentioned Ordinance on grounds that

his activities constitute a grave potential danger to the

interests of this Colony.

2.

De Kanel, a former Russian born in Chita, Liberia,

arrived in Hong Kong on 4th July, 1938, travelling on an affidavit in lieu of passport issued at His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General, Shanghai, on 28th June, 1938,

and visé for Hong Kong on the same date. He had

previously been in Hong Kong from July, 1927, to July, 1928,

and in August, 1934. On the latter occasion he arrived from Shanghai on a Chinese passport without a visa, and was

fined ten dollars for this offence.

3.

The ostensible purposes of his last visit to

Hong Kong were to enter the Far East Flying Training School,

at which he has since obtained an "A" licence, and to

obtain material for a magazine known as the "China Sea

Clipper" of which he is publisher and editor. During his

stay here he has been closely connected with two concerns

suspected of Japanese affiliations.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c., &c.

&c.,

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