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No. 15.

52036/20

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Sir,

VEIVED

24 JAN 1940

C. O. REGY

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

9th January, 1940.

I have the honour to transmit a copy of a

monthly summary of the net figures recorded of persons

entering and leaving this Colony by train and steamer

during the two years 1938 and 1939. These figures take

no account of movements of refugees or others entering

or leaving on foot, by automobile or sailing vessel,

nor do they include passengers who after disembarking

went on their way by the same steamer.

2.

While no great accuracy is claimed for these

statistics they unquestionably indicate the trend of

movement from time to time: such inaccuracy as there

is will have been due to omission, the figures therefore

should be regarded as conservative. The records for

January

-

May 1938 are lumped, as it was in June of

that year that I gave instructions for a daily return

to be put up to me: subsequently, in order to complete

the twelve-month record, I asked for the net figures for

the earlier five-month period.

3.

It is estimated that the corresponding net

total figure for the last six months of 1937, i.e. when

Shanghai was a war-area, may have been of the order of

100,000.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c.,

&c., &c.

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