MARGIN.
Registry
No. 10919/108/01
F10697/1147/10
A.L.S.
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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1
November 1945.
Draft.
Mr. J. M. Allison, American Embassy.
From Mr. Sterndale
Bennett
Press notice
[F1011/1237/61]
U.S., citizens desiring to proneer 15
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Thank you for your letter of the 8th
November about the entry of American
businessmen to Hongkong.
I should like to emphasise in the first
place that, Hongkong being a liberated territory,
it has been necessary to restrict the entry of
in the same way as in the Philippines. civilians into Hongkong/
The businessmen who
have so far been allowed in are confined to
bankers, British and Allied including Americans,
and one or two industrial organizations such as
those providing public utilities which are
essential to the life of the community. With
these exceptions United States businessmen
have been in exactly the same position as
British businessmen. It has however now been
decided to re-open the Colony to private
trading and details of the arrangements will
be communicated as soon as possible. The same
considerations apply generally in the case of
Malaya.
The whole question, however, of the
return to British Far Eastern territories, in
North particular |
Malaya,/Bernee and Hongkong, has
keen recently reviewed and.
notice recently issued setting out the
arrangements applicable to those resident in
this country and in South Africa, Australia,
New Zealand, India and Ceylon. We are not in-
a position to assist residents in forbign
untries to obtain passagas, and they should
at Work Mor apply to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer
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the country concerned (at Singapore in the eave
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