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165.
Bir,
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Colonial office,
Downing ⠀treet,
Ich Hay, 1959.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your denpalah 50.178 of the 11th Baroh, regarding the
application made by the Dairen Zisen Zaisha for the clearENOS
of certain vessels from Hong Kong.
ba
It would a pour that the authorities in Hong Kong
have already done all that can reasonably be expected of
them in the matter of making it difficult for these ships to
lesve liong Kong enters, and His Majesty's Government are
advised that it would not be possible on, an to speak, "public"
groundry to request the loɛɛl authorities to use for this
purpose any special or w
which they a
Whether there are ordinary legal growvis upon which the ships
could be detained appears to be a astter entirely for the
Government of Hong Kong themselves to decide.
3.
should the Chinese authorities be anxious that
shipe in question should not fall into Japanese hands, it
would appear to be for them to take the necessary step,
vis-à-vis the Chinese intereste concerned, and if necessary,
to make it worth the latters' while not to part with them.
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BIR GEOFFRY #ORTHCOTE, K.G.N.G..
etc.
eta.
the honour to
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
(EL) MAI
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