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CONFIDENTIAL. SAFE HAND
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Copies sent to:
8 MAY 1941
No. 90 (10/32F/1941 and two copies.
Chungking No. 84
Hongkong No. 16.
Passport Control Officer Shanghai.
Macao No. 3.
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Sir,
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BRITISH EMBASSY
SHANGHAI.
18th February, 1941.
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I have the honour to refer to Chungking telegram No. 8 of 6th January 1941, regarding the Immigration Control Ordinance, 1940 (No. 32 of 1940), modifying the regulations governing entry into the Colony of Hongkong and which was brought into force on the 15th January 1941.
2.
I understand that the Ordinance does not alter the position as regards the issue of visas on passports of aliens, other than Chinese, travelling to or through Hongkong, but that Chinese, who could previously enter Hongkong without travel documents must now produce for inspection a valid passport duly visaed or must have an Entry Permit, Frontier Pass or Certificate of Residence in Hongkong. Such documents will be issued only by the authorities in Hongkong.
3.
An explanation of the scope and operation of the new regulations was circulated to H.M. Consuls in China in Embassy Circular to Consuls No. 9 of 29th January 1941, a copy of which has been forwarded to you under my printed letter No. 53. It will be observed that paragraph 7 of this circular authorised His Majesty's Consuls in China to issue visas on
Chinese national passports to reputable Chinese valid for a single journey to Hongkong and not including other British territory and transit visas limited to journeys to Chinese territory through Hongkong, without obtaining prior sanction from the Immigration authorities at Hongkong or the sanction of the Passport Control Officer at Shanghai.
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4.
This extension to His Majesty's Consuls in China of authority to grant visas to reputable Chinese at their discretion and without reference to other authorities was originally suggested by His Majesty's Ambassador at Chungking to the Hongkong authorities and in view of the complaints regarding the Hongkong Immigration Ordinance by the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs - see in particular paragraph 2 (5) of my telegram No. 8 of 6th January 1941 addressed to F98 your predecessor - I was reluctant to suggest any
anxious with applications for visas from reputable Chinese in appl
the more isolated parts of China where reference by His Majesty's Consuls to other authorities before
The Right Honourable,
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Anthony Eden, M.C., M.P.,
etc., etc., etc.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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