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to Shanghai if possible and that I should endeavour to carry out arrangment provisionally medc with His Majesty's Consul Generel thera (my telegram No.459)
whereby they would be arrested on landing there as
undesirables and then deported thence to HongKong
and Singapore by judges order.
There remains alternative route to America
which men would like to tako but I have notified
United States: Ambassador that His Majesty's Consul General will not issue passports or landing tickets
to men so I hope that they will not be allowed to em-
bark.
As regards 2nd paragraph of your telegram Foreign
Office insisted on extending notice șo as to be able
to say in Parliament that they had treated Indians
exactly like Germans Deportees. This extension
did not really matter much as main point was to are
range date of giving notice so as to oblige men to
take Shanghai and HongKong route and a selected
boat.
This was satisfactorily fixed up for a French
Messageries Maritimes boat and with assistance of
French Ambassador I had arranged with Captain to
give a rendezvous at sea to "Atlas" where men
would have been taken off without slightest trouble
but as reported whole plan was upset by fatuous
conduct of police who let the men slip (group unde-
cypherable) nervous:e86. All the arrangements were kept secret between Ministry for Foreign Affairs and
myself but actual deportation had to become public as
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