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PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the
Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
Dated 17th July, 1932. Received in the Colonid Office at
6.25 p.m., 16th July, 1932.
No.148.
Your telegram of June 29th Nguyen ai Quoc wishes to
proceed to England (see my telegram September 24th 1931 and
your reply) but wishes to avoid the Suez and Trans-Pacific
routes and he fears molestation by the French at Port Said or
Marseilles in first instance and at Shanghai or Japan in
second place. He desires to go to Australia and thence to
England via Cape of Good Hope and under paragraph 3 of appeal
claims an undertaking that permission to enter and stay in
Australia for the purpose of transhipment shall be obtained
from Australian Government.
Secrecy is important regarding identity. Can
consent of Australian Government be obtained accordingly?