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DEPARTLISTAL NO.1.
FROM CHUNGKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Sir H. Seymour.
No.1025
4th September, 1945.
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D. 1.45 p.m. GMT 4th September, 1945.
R. 3.30 p.m. BST 4th September, 1945.
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We are beginning to receive requests from official Chinese organisations for early facilities in reoccupied British territories. Examples are from W. P.B., from Chinese Ministry of Information, and frota a r. P.H. Chung who writes that he has been made Special Finance Commissioner under the Ministry of Finance for Fukien, Kuangtung, and Kuangsi, and that Hong Kong is "included in the area over which I hold my comission.
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2. I propose to reply to this letter, which speaks of many Chinese (grp.undec. ? banks] both Government and private in Hong Kong which require the writer's immediate attention and of examination of books of conduct of staffs during oneny occupation, suggesting official approach by Ministry of Finance through normal channel i.e. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Chinese Embassy in London.
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3. As the Ministry of Information, press attaché has been asked what facilities can be given in Rangoon, Singapore, and Hong Kong, for Ministry representatives for particular purpose of informing Chinese residents of past and present events in China. On this my feeling is that, as in the end these representatives will certainly get in, we shall be well advised to accept them with good grace, but in our own time and on our own terms. These might include that they should be attached to consulates and subject to [grp.undec. ? contractual] agreement similar to that entered into with the Chinese for P.A's office here, see my telegram No. 277 of 1942.
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