COPY FOR REGISTRATION
Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of
State for the Colonies.
Dated 2nd. November, 1938. Received 9.16 a.m. 2nd. November.
No.511. Confidential.
2 NOV 1938
52
as a
Addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies
I have No.311 repeated to the British Embassy Shanghai No.192.
received a request from the Chinese Foreign Office conveyed
through the British Embassy Shanghai to agree to the Chinese
Invoice Officer here being empowered to issue passports "
provisional measure" as it is at present impossible for the
Chinese to go to Canton for passports. I request instructions
in this matter as I foresee difficulties with regard to the recognition of such passports abroad and also because the Chinese
He can moreover Invoice Office is not a Consular authority.
have no means of checking credentials of persons domiciled in
China.
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