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137.
Goo
Levret
(to copy of note of an interviews by the
Commisuoner
of Police with the Japanese return of farmer Japanese
Consul Gend residents to H.K.;
H.K.)
26. 5. 38.
See 45 on /37.
The Governor reported, a month before this
despatch was written, that Japanese residents in
Hong Kong had been allowed to leave the concentration
points as there was little risk in them living in
their own homes. I do not think that his view that
it would be inadvisable that there should be any
general return of evacuated residents to Hong Kong
is inconsistent with the previous despatch, particul-
arly as in the meanwhile Japanese bombing of Canton
will almost certainly have increased the anti-
Japanese feeling in the Colony.
The F.0. may consider that there are certain
difficulties in continuing to inform the Japanese
Consul General that a return of Japanese nationals is
inadvisable, but it does not appear to me that these
objections are as strong now as they were in September
of last year, when the difficulty was that we were
endeavouring to ensure the safety of Japanese nationals
in Shanghai in order to avert a Japanese military
attack there, and action such as that taken in Hong Kong might well prejudice the (very slight) chance of
success of our representations regarding Shanghai.
This despatch hardly calls for a reply, and
I suggest that it would be sufficient to send copies
to the F.0. and W.0. with copies of 45 on the 1937 file.
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