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11 OCT 194
Operation of the Hong Kong Immigration Control
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Transmits copy of Hong Kong telegram No.1746 3rd October, on the subject. Proposeto approve steps taken by the Governor, to ask for report in due course, and to remind him of necessity for administering the Ordinance in a considerate and sympathetic manner, with particular reference to holders of Chinese passports. Requests observations.
(Copies to Colonel Scott, War Office, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Price, War Cabinet Offices.)
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I suppose that in view of the military situation we need not insist on first referring the matter to Sir A. Clark Kerr, but should concur in the action proposed by Mr. Gent. We might, however, ask the Colonial Office to instruct Hong Kong to repeat to Chungking Colonial Office telegram to Hong Kong No. 1020, Hong Kong telegram No. 1143 and the telegram which the Colonial Office now propose to send to Hong Kong, after which we might send a telegram to Chungking instructing Sir A. Clark Kerr to explain to the Chinese that the measures taken are unavoidably necessary in the interests of the defence of Hong Kong and to speak in the sense of the telegram which the Colonial Office now propose to send.
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Shinda Semel Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, to whom our letter should be
We might at the same time, in thanking Mr. Gent for holding the balance fairly between political and military considerations, remind him (for the benefit of
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