SWAN, Circuit Judge.
The applicant for admission, a Chinese youth 17 years of age, arrived at the port of New York in October, 1928. A board of special inquiry, after hearings, excluded him on the ground that the claimed relationship to his putative father, whose citizenship was conceded, had not been established. Its decision of exclusion was affirmed by the board of review. Thereupon a writ of habeas corpus was sued out, upon which an order was
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