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  • 5 - Mounting the Defense

  • Geoffrey C. Gunn
  • Book:
    Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
    Published online:
    19 July 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 126-150

  • Summary

    This chapter deals with the aftermath of Ho Chi Minh's arrest and incarceration in Victoria Prison (along with that of a female comrade Ly Sam/Co Thuan). It draws upon a trove of documentation, both personal and political, that was seized from Ho Chi Minh's Kowloon City premises. These documents were lost to British record keepers but survive in French and Russian archives and are here offered for the first time in print. The chapter examines Ho Chi Minh's household budget notebooks to reveal the names of tenants and their activities. It also introduces the crucial support rendered by local lawyer Francis Loseby in mounting the Sung Man Cho/ Ly Sam defense in Hong Kong's Supreme Court. Besides offering detail on Ho Chi Minh's prison experience, this chapter also introduces rare documentation in the form of letters written from prison to the French double agent, including his own medical and mental condition, among other key intelligence details reaching French ears.