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Rrot 16 MAR 12
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March
Lir.
I have at length received a reply regarding the
question of the deportation of Chinese to Hong Kong, but
it wee drafted in the ebrence of the Assistant Secretary
of Commerce and Labour, and as it shows no intelligent
appreciation of the situation and proposer no solutien
of the difficulties it is not worth while troubling you
with it.
The asistent bearetary has now returned and has
been approached privately on the mobject.
There are three classes of deported Chinese, vizi-
(1) Those that are excluded on landing and ere zent
back by the earliest steeper whence they come.
(2) Those win are found to be illegally in the
country and are deported to the place from which they
declare they came.
(7) Those who are relepend from geel on condition
that they retura to their country.
As to the first olcee. I uninpeberd "ket the long
Kong Dover went maker on protest. Ar to the third class,
r. Carlo considers that there might he come difficul
in making satisf:atory arrangements owing to the fact that
they are dealt with by the different States ord not by sha
odorel
The night Lonourable,
bir 3dwed Grey, Bart.. K.0.3
etc.. etc., etc..
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