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Mr.
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Mr.
Mr.
Mr. A. J. Dawe.
Sir H. Moore.
Sir G. Tomlinson.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
DRAFT.
Canton or Shanghai according to their
birth places. It was then thought
that it might be possible to treat
these men as civilian refugees and
absorb them in one of the existing
refugee camps with liberty to return
to their homes in China if and when
they might choose an opportunity at
their own risk and expense. Although
at first this scheme seemed to commend
FURTHER ACTION.
itself, it was realised that the danger
of its adoption might well be to
encourage the use of Hong Kong as an
asylum by members, not only of the
Chinese, but also of the Japanese
forces. This danger was felt to be a
real one, and had such a state of
things arisen it would soon have led
to the development of an impossible
situation in Hong Kong.
It was, therefore, somewhat
reluctantly