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Cypher Telegram
TO: FROM:
TO STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
Governor (Sir S. Thomas)
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Sent 4th December, 1941. 16.00 hrs.
IMMEDIATE No. 1848.
Addressed to Governor Straits
Settlements.
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Repeated to Governor Hong Kong
No. 1272.
Hong Kong telegram No. 307 to you and your r reply. I agree with Governor Hong Kong as to political importance of his object. What are immigration regulations needing to be waived before classes of Chinese persons he mentions can be admitted to Malaya. Presumably such difficulties would in any case not arise in cases of such of them as are British subjects,
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