CONFIDENTIAL.
DIEU
ET MONA
OROIT
شا
나
Colonial Secretary's Office.
Đông Phong
3rd January, 1936.
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cony to Randall-2.0.
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My dear Cowell,
Your letter of 5th November regarding the
exclusion of Asiatics from the Hong Kong Golf courses reached me just before I handed over to Sir Andrew Caldecott and as it necessitated somewhat delicate handling I was not able to deal
fully with it until a few days ago.
I have now seen the Captain of the Royal Hong
Kong Golf Club and one of the members of the Committee and am assured that there is very little likelihood of any unpleasant- ness such as occurred at Mombasa happening in Hong Kong.
There is no rule against a person of any race being put up for full membership of the Hong Kong Golf Club but it would be disingenuous to pretend that a Chinese or a Japanese resident would have much chance of election to full membership, for the Club already has as many members as it requires without bringing in Asiatics, and the Japanese have
a Golf Course of their own in the New Territories.
It is presumably from these circumstances
that the Embassy at Tokio derived the impression that the Hong Kong Golf Club Courses "are all closed to Asiatics", and it
H.R. Cowell, Esq., C.M.G.