Ex parte Yee Gee

Yee Gee, a Chinese alien, was a lawfully domiciled laborer. He departed from the port of San Eraneiseo for China on September 30, 1924, bearing a regularly issued laborer’s return certificate (form 432), which entitled him to return within the period of one year from date of departure, unless an overtime certificate was granted by an American consular *654 officer for an additional period not to exceed one year.

In March, 1926, the Chinese applied to the consulate general at Hongkong for an overtime certificate on the affidavits of himself and two others, setting forth that he had been unavoidably detained beyond the year for return “owing to the extreme difficulty in securing a passage from Sunning (the district of his home village) back to Hongkong because of frequent piracies, and communications between Sunning-and Hongkong were interrupted on account of the disturbed conditions existing in the province of Kwong Tung (the province of his native district) caused by the strike and political crisis there. Now that peace has more or less been restored in the province of Kwong Tung, I was able to come back to Hongkong via Maeao (Portugese settlement) as aforesaid.” Further: “And…